This new Google Messages function goes to make group chats approach higher

Google Messages
has turn out to be the go-to messaging app for a lot of Android customers, particularly because it serves because the native textual content messaging app for Android OS and helps the newest RCS options. Samsung has even began phasing out its Samsung Messages app in favor of Google Messages with the launch of the

Galaxy S25 series
earlier this 12 months.

Whereas Google Messages has

made solid progress
lately towards changing into a aggressive messaging app, it nonetheless must play a little bit of catch-up if it desires full function parity with different standard messaging apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, and iMessage. A few options Google is engaged on for its messaging app

in the near future
embody a delicate content material warning system and real-time location sharing.

Now, one other handy feature is on the best way for Google Messages, making it a lot simpler to speak in your group chats and get the eye of your family and friends.

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Google is including @point out help to Google Messages

You will quickly be capable to point out your pals in group chats

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I do that on a regular basis on Instagram or iMessage group chats, the place I @ a particular good friend once I’m sending them a meme or have to seize their consideration. In Google Messages, you possibly can’t at the moment @point out somebody in a bunch chat like you possibly can on many social media apps and different messaging apps like WhatsApp. However fortunately, that can quickly change.

Android Authority just lately found that Google is engaged on a brand new Mentions function, and now, in its latest APK Teardown, it was capable of get the brand new Mentions function to work within the newest Google Messages beta (v20250511).

The Mentions function, as anticipated, works equally to different messaging apps like WhatsApp or Telegram. Customers will be capable to point out any person within the group chat by merely typing “@” adopted by their identify or mobile phone quantity. An autocomplete immediate will then pop up, saving you from having to sort out the particular person’s full identify or quantity. When you ship the message, the talked about particular person’s identify shall be highlighted and in daring.

If you faucet on somebody’s identify that has been talked about, you possibly can preview their profile, with choices to name, textual content, or view their full profile. When Android Authority examined the Mentions function, it did not notify the person who was talked about. Hopefully, when this function ultimately rolls out to a secure launch of Google Messages, it should.

Google hasn’t formally introduced this new Mentions function, and at the moment, it is simply in a beta model of Google Messages, which Android Authority needed to dig into to activate manually. It is unclear when this function will roll out or when Google will announce it. Provided that mentioning folks in group chats is a fairly customary function that the majority messaging apps have already got, hopefully we’ll see this sooner fairly than later.

One other distinguished function that’s coming quickly to Google Messages is the power to delete messages inside a 15-minute window after sending them. It was just lately noticed within the newest

Google Messages beta
additionally, nevertheless it hasn’t rolled out extensively but and nonetheless has some vital caveats.

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