Google messages prepare a small revolution to better compete with WhatsApp
Increasingly popular since it is natively integrated into Google Messages, the RCS protocol (Rich Communication Services) Allows you to send messages richer in content (attachments, reactions, etc.) than traditional SMS. ThereiPhone compatibility with this technology (since the deployment of iOS 18) has brought an additional spotlight to these messages, which are therefore no longer reserved only for Android terminals – on which it should be noted that Google Messages is most of the time the selected communication app by default. They nevertheless suffer from competition from instant messaging applications, starting with WhatsApp and its some two billion monthly active users.
To better compete with WhatsApp and others, each new version of which welcomes options strengthening their attractiveness (multiple accounts,, Links with AIetc.), Google messages are preparing to accommodate a function related to the RCS particularly practical in the event of a recipient error, information shared by megarde or immediate regret: the possibility of canceling the sending of a message . The peeling of the latest beta version of the app found by 9TO5 Google reports the possibility “to edit, recall and delete” A message, this last function being of course the one that interests us most. The application code does not point out, which nevertheless risks supporting it: a maximum delay beyond which it is no longer possible to delete the message in question, a little like the past period which it does not is more possible to make corrections.
The GSMA, an international group of actors in the universe of mobile, published in June 2024 its standard dedicated to RCS messaging, including its recommendations for the interoperability of messages between operating systems the possibility of deleting messages. Suffice to say that the functionality of the beta (v.20250131_02_c00) of Google Messages is likely to be worn in its consumer version, which can be expected in the coming months.
