Texting has evolved over the years to become a better version, like almost every other piece of tech. The core idea is still the same, but now with plenty of features that give you more control over ...

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 ...

In August of 2024, Google Messages started testing a circular redesign of read receipts. This has been slowly rolling out since then, and there now looks to be wide availability for beta users.

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 is working on bringing emoji reactions to the Wear OS version of the Messages app. A new “Mark as read” button is also expected for Wear OS notifications, mirroring the Android phone experience ...

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.