- Despite previous reports Samsung -Messages are not disconnected
- Samsung’s original messaging -App even had RCS -Support reinstated
- Samsung -Messages are now only available via the Galaxy Store
Despite a previous statement that is largely interpreted as a discontinuation message, Samsung’s Google Messages -Rival is still available to the Samsung Galaxy smartphone users -in fact it just got a new update.
Samsung messages, which are now only available through the Samsung-Run Galaxy Store app, have been upgraded to include Google’s implementation of RCS or rich communication services.
As we have previously reported, RC’s iMessage style enables media sharing and group chat for phones on any platform. Samsung users have had access to RCS through Google messages for years.
Samsung messages previously offered a proprietary implementation of RCS -but as Android Authority notes, this was drawn last year as part of Switch to Google messages as default Messaging app for Galaxy hand sets.
We recently reported that Samsung messages had been interrupted and would be made completely inaccessible to users of the Galaxy S25, Galaxy S25 Plus and Galaxy S25 Ultra.
This was due to a statement from Samsung, originally reported by Android Authority, who read (partly): “We have chosen to migrate all services to Google messages and is sunset Samsung messages. It is no longer available in the Play Store; However, those who chose to use Samsung messages are still capable of it. “
Although our coverage as well as by others as well as phonearena, interpreted “sunset” as an easier way of saying “shutdown”, Samsung later informed us that this was not exactly the case.
A later statement that was delivered to us by Samsung directly said: “From the new models, the app Samsung Messages will no longer be loaded. Instead, Google messages will provide a new and improved experience to express your feelings, making communication safe and fun. The Samsung -Message app is still available for downloading from Galaxy Store with some features that are excluded. “
The new models are the Galaxy S25, Galaxy S25 Plus, Galaxy S25 Ultra and presumably the new Galaxy S25 Edge. Instead of losing access to Samsung messages, it seems that owners of the latest Samsung Galaxy phones will need to visit the app at Samsung’s own Galaxy store.
There have been some back and forth about the future of Samsung messages, but an official update like this suggests it is clinging around for a while, if only as a sidelined alternative to the Nu-Default Google messages. As a video from Sammygurus Jeff Springer demonstrates, the Samsung messages remain inaccessible from the Google Play store.
In any case, a messaging app change is unlikely to stop the Galaxy S25 series from picking up stains on our lists of the best phones and best Samsung phones.
