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RCS communication features and messaging updates are the focus of recent Hitechreports coverage. Articles detail upcoming software changes involving Android messaging app settings, built-in games, and cross-platform capabilities on Apple devices.
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.
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.
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.
Apple's iOS 27 brings native Tapback reactions and inline replies to RCS chats with Android users, tackling long-standing group text headaches while editing restrictions remain.