What you might want to know
- Customers on Reddit reported new learn receipt indicators for RCS chats in Google Messages and an APK teardown offered extra perception.
- Per the teardown, Google is testing a change in Messages that strikes these despatched/delivered indicators contained in the bubble along with your textual content.
- A Reddit person found that you just’d should press and maintain a message and drag it to view the time it was despatched.
Google is reportedly growing a redesign for its RCS textual content indicators in Messages.
The corporate is growing a (sort of) “in-line” learn receipt notification for its RCS-enabled chats. Customers on Reddit have reported these new indicators on their units whereas within the Google Messages beta (by way of Android Authority). Extra importantly, the publication carried out an APK dive of the latest beta model (messages.android_20241029_00_RC00)
From screenshots shared on Reddit to the publication’s teardown, these new indicators will occupy the right-most nook of your textual content bubble.
Additional digging reveals that the animations have modified, too. In accordance with the publish, sending a message is accompanied by an ellipsis (three dots) earlier than turning right into a single verify mark. A second verify mark — or a part of it — seems in opposition to the primary, exhibiting that the message has been despatched and delivered efficiently.
These new receipt indicators are (doubtlessly) at all times current within the textual content thread regardless of the variety of messages. This contrasts how Messages is presently the place essentially the most just lately despatched textual content shows its RCS despatched/delivered indicators. Moreover, a person on Reddit within the beta states Google modified how one can see the time of a textual content.
The person states customers should “maintain and pull the display screen to see the time the message got here/despatched.” After, the app will robotically drop the textual content to cowl these additional particulars.
Google messages Learn receipt u.i modified for me. from r/GoogleMessages
Because the check expands to extra customers, it is unclear when Google will roll this out. Reviews of those revamped indicators have been posted just lately, so the corporate will seemingly wait some time for suggestions/testing earlier than pushing it to everybody.
It is value remembering that Google Messages used to (digitally) say “Sending…” and “Despatched” when texting others. That modified final yr when the corporate launched the brand new checkmarks we have turn into accustomed to seeing within the app. With this alteration looming, Google strikes them from beneath your message, beside the time, to contained in the bubble along with your textual content.
Apart out of your texts, it was reported just lately that Google Messages may obtain additional privateness choices by way of Profile Discovery. Such choices embrace exhibiting your identify and profile icon to “individuals you message,” “solely contacts,” or “nobody.” These additions have been found on the setup display screen for the Messages app.
