- Google -Messages are likely to add the possibility of not hit messages in its next update
- Previously, users could only delete messages from their own device
- The feature has not yet been released without any fixed release date
Google messages will soon allow you to remove messages to other people instead of just deleting them from your own device if a new feature found in an upcoming update will release it.
An APK demolition from Android Authority found that users will soon have two options when trying to delete a message, with the existing “Delete for me” feature that is with “Delete for All”.
Google messages are the Android stock message app, and as such can be found preloaded on all the best Android phones, from the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra to Google Pixel 9 Pro for OnePlus 13.
This new USEND feature is already common in modern Messaging -Apps like WhatsApp and in social media messaging services such as Instagram DMS. Until now, the deletion of an RCS message on Google messages removed only the one from one’s own device -the recipient or recipients could still see the message as originally sent.
It seems that the Google notification version of this feature will not be as quiet as the competition -as opposed to WhatsApp, Instagram and others, Google messages will actively notify the recipients that a message has been deleted.
For our technically minded readers, the new feature was found in a non-published code intended for Google Messages version 20250131_02_RC00. The USEND feature is specifically added in accordance with RCS Universal Profile V2.7.
Google messages have a prominent place in the Android ecosystem and recently became the Standard Messaging app for Samsung Galaxy phones. As Phoneearena notes, it is important that Google’s message service maintains the features that users expect as competition becomes more concentrated.
WhatsApp remains the world’s most popular Messaging service with over two billion users around the world, but Google messages are not far after-google blog posts from 2023 celebrated the app that passed a billion RCS-activated users.
As my Techradar -Collections May be able to attest, i know the feeling of having a joke in a busy group chat not stick the landing – I am glad to see that Google messages allow users to another chance when they need It (even if it does come with a fairly conspicuous message).
And while it appears that it is very likely to be launched with the next version of Google messages, the described USEND feature does not relieve without a fixed release date so that the details contained in this story can change over time.
