While third-party messaging applications hold a significant market share, Google Messages, a pre-installed application on Android devices, offers a surprisingly robust suite of functionalities. This ...

Jon has been an author at Android Police since 2021. He primarily writes features and editorials covering the latest Android news, but occasionally reviews hardware and Android apps. His favorite ...

Taylor worked with AP from 2018 to 2025, most recently as Google Editor. Google's been a big proponent of RCS, the standard that modernizes text messaging with features like high-quality media, typing ...

Google has started rolling out the Material 3 Expressive redesign for its Messages app on the beta channel. The beta release brings design changes for the app’s homepage, chat interface, settings menu ...

Google has rolled out the Material 3 Expressive redesign to the Google Messages chat screen, adding curved corners and refreshed layouts. The update marks another step in Google’s push to modernize ...

Google has started rolling out a rather big overhaul of the gallery UI in the Messages app. Several things have changed for a completely different look. Those changes are now rolling out to users.

Google Messages is introducing a new Trash feature that stores deleted chats for 30 days before permanently deleting them. Users can now restore or permanently delete individual or all trashed ...