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Google Messages is covered through reports on upcoming features and security updates found in app code and beta versions. Coverage includes new artificial intelligence scam detection tools and potential changes to messaging toggles and casual games.
Google Messages is now the default texting app on nearly every Android phone, including Samsung's. Here's where to find the settings that limit tracking, quiet notifications and rein in Gemini.
Google Messages' rigid spam filter is pushing some Android users toward QUIK, a free, open-source SMS app that lets people build their own block lists with regex and third-party caller-ID tools.
Google is rolling out Enhanced Protection in the Google Messages beta, an opt-in Gemini-powered tool that scans full conversations from unknown numbers to catch scam texts before they escalate to an OTP or payment request.
Google Messages is rolling out an Enhanced Protection mode that leans on Gemini AI to catch scams and sketchy links, building on the Standard Protection the app already offers against spam.
Code inside a Google Messages beta build shows the app's settings screen getting reorganized into distinct sections, replacing today's single cluttered list of RCS, notification and bubble options.
Google is adding an opt-in Enhanced protection mode to Google Messages on Android that uses Gemini to flag drawn-out scam conversations and checks unfamiliar links before you open them.
Google Messages is adding an opt-in Enhanced protection mode that routes suspicious texts to cloud Gemini models, hunting down conversational scams that on-device filters miss.
Google is rolling out an opt-in Enhanced protection mode for Google Messages that uses Gemini AI to spot scammers hiding behind slow-burn conversations, plus new call-forwarding and screen-share protections for Android.
Google Messages is adding built-in games — including Chess, Cup Pong, Basketball, and Word Scramble — as part of an internal project codenamed Midnight, according to strings found in the app’s latest open beta build.
A recent Google Messages beta teardown reveals code removing the per-contact RCS toggle, leaving Android phone owners with an all-or-nothing switch if message delivery runs into trouble on their devices.
Google Messages may soon eliminate the option to disable RCS for specific contacts, pushing users to choose between running the modern protocol everywhere or turning it off entirely.
Google Messages beta code reveals plans to drop the per-chat SMS and MMS toggle, pushing users to adopt RCS everywhere or shut it off across the board.
Google Messages may soon add integrated chat games like Chess and Pool. An Android beta build reveals code strings pointing to a new native gaming section.