Google Messages Features

Google has announced several new features for its Google Messages app last week. This includes the facility to snooze notifications and delete text messages for all in RCS chat. These features are now available on a large scale for stable users. This feature allows users to snooge notifications for a message that is reserved. At the same time, the second option allows all those involved in the chat to delete the message, which is similar to the current option on WhatsApp. However, the people present on the old version of the Google Messages app will still be able to see the deleted text. Let us know about it in detail.

New features in google messages

The delete for everyvan option in Google Messages has also been working for a few months. It was first seen in the code of the app in February. The company released it for beta users. Now it is on a large scale in Google Messages App Available Has been done. After a long press on a message and then tapping on the trash button brings two options delete for everyvan and delete for me. The first option removes it from the device of both sender and receiver.

However, it is limited to RCS chat and non RCS messages cannot be removed for all users. Apart from this, messages can still be seen on the device running the old version of the Google Messages app. Another new feature for the chat page helps in this which shows the contact whose RCS is on on the phone. Meanwhile, Google has also introduced a snooz notification feature on the message app. A new window opens on a long press on any conversion from the home page of the app, which shows different time periods. Users can choose to snooze notification for an hour, 8 hours, 24 hours and forever. After this the conversation will become gray, below which the selected time or date will be seen.

Google says that other members will not be aware that you have snooted the notification for chat. Users can repeat the steps to ignore snooz. As a Google Messages updates for June 2025, Tech veteran has also announced a personalization for RCS Group Chat, where users can set a custom icon and unique name for it.