- Google messages are finally rolling its long-awaited snooze feature for chats, Android Police has seen
- The feature allows you to snooze chats for one hour, eight hours or 24 hours, and there is also an ‘always’ option
- You will also be able to set it so that you receive warnings when someone mentions you in a chat even if the feature
It seems that Google messages’ long-awaited snooze feature is finally rolling out, and catching up with them like other messaging platforms Telegram and WhatsApp. The feature has been viewed in the latest Google messages beta for both SMS and RCS messages, two months after the company started working on it.
According to the Android Police, one of the first stores that views the feature, the new ‘snooze chat’ feature is displayed when you open a contact page in the Google Messages app, which allows you to dampen chat for one hour, eight hours, 24 hours or ‘always’. The Android Police also added that it will be rolled out to selected users so that not everyone will be able to access it immediately.
In addition to the four snoozing options, the Android police also discovered a setting that allows you to receive notifications if you are mentioned (@), even if a chat has been snoozed. Recently, Google has been playing with the idea of introducing a public mention of chats and although this is not available yet, Android Authority believes it could be rolled out at the same time as the Snooze feature.
There are two ways to activate the ‘Snooze Chat’ feature. The first is about to go to a contact’s page and activate the feature there as mentioned above. Alternatively, you can long press a chat in your Google messages inbox, and a snooze icon appears on the toolbar that the Android police have tested.
Since it was released in 2014, Google Messages have never had a feature that allows you to snooze chats so far. Instead, the only way to dampen messages and group cats to dampen messages manually, but that meant you had to manually activate them again and hold tabs on your conversations.
Google Messages’ Snooze feature is just one of its new features. Over the past few months, the Messaging service has tested a handful of new upgrades, many of which are long too late, including a ‘Delete for all’ UN-S-SND option. The company has also been very careful about upgrading its group chat -ecosystem, testing new group chatlink and custom group chip tones that match similar features found in WhatsApp.
