- Google messages will probably add the possibility of not saying messages in its next update
- Previously, users could only delete messages from their own device
- The functionality is still unprecedented, without a fixed release date
Google messages will soon allow you to send you messages for other people, rather than simply deleting them from your own device, if a new feature found in a next update.
An APK disassembly by Android Authority revealed that users will soon receive two options when you try to delete a message, with the existing “delete” function joined by “delete for everyone”.
Google messages is the original Android messaging application, and as such, can be found preloaded on all the best Android phones, from the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra to Google Pixel 9 Pro at OnePlus 13.
This new Unsend feature is already common in modern messaging applications like WhatsApp and in social media messaging services like Instagram DMS. However, so far, the deletion of a RCS message on Google messages has only deleted it from its own device – the recipient or the recipients could always see the message as originally sent.
It seems that the Google Messages version of this feature will not be as silent as competitors – unlike WhatsApp, Instagram and others, Google Messages will actively inform the recipients that a message has been deleted.
For our technically in mind readers, the new functionality was found in an unprecedented code intended for Google Messages Version 20250131_02_RC00. The Unnds feature was specifically added online with RCS Universal Profile V2.7.
Google Messages has an important place in Android ecosystem and has recently become the default email application for Samsung Galaxy phones. As Phonearena notes, it is important that Google’s messaging service retains the features that users expect as competition becomes more concentrated.
WhatsApp remains the most popular messaging service in the world, with more than two billion users worldwide, but Google Messages is not far behind – a 2023 Google blog article celebrated the application through the Users compatible with a billion RC.
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And although it seems very likely to start with the next version of Google Messages, the feature described lower remains unprecedented without a fixed release date, so that the details contained in this story could change over time.