Google Messages

Google LLC

About this app

Google Messages is the official Google app for messaging. Google Messages is revolutionizing how a billion users connect and is powered by Rich Communication Services (RCS), the industry standard for texting that replaces SMS and MMS. With RCS, you can share high resolution photos and videos, enjoy dynamic group chats, and seamlessly connect with other RCS users including your iPhone friends.

• Rich Communication: Share high-quality photos and videos, see when friends are typing, and enjoy dynamic group chats that now seamlessly include your iPhone friends.
• Personal Touch: Make conversations uniquely yours with features like custom chat bubble colors or fun selfie gifs.
• Privacy Matters: Rest easy knowing your personal chats are protected with end-to-end encryption between Google Messages users, so no one (including Google and third parties) can read or view your messages and attachments except the person you’re messaging. Plus, enjoy advanced spam protection.
• AI-Powered Messaging: Craft the perfect message with Magic Compose suggestions and our latest AI features.
• Seamless Across Devices: Start a chat on your phone and continue it effortlessly on your tablet or computer. The app is also available on Wear OS.

Google Messages is more than just messaging; it's a richer, safer, and more expressive way to connect.

App is also available on Wear OS. Availability of RCS varies by region and carrier and a data plan may be required. Availability of features varies by market and device and sign up for beta testing may be required.

Ratings and reviews

After the most recent update, when I try to send an invite from my Google calendar to someone via Google Messenger instead of pulling up the text box with the date info populated in the text, it just opens the messaging app. No way to send an invite like I was able to do yesterday. STOP sending out updates to your apps that don't work or take away functionality to the apps! Google Calendar update was today too! Unfortunately there's no way to undo an update anymore. Unacceptable!

These UI changes just making everything a thousand times more confusing for everyone, and also are less convenient and more finicky than the old UI that worked perfectly fine. For instance, the new in-app gallery? With the old one, you could just scroll and tap a picture. Now it sends you to a separate screen, and if you have your phone tilted just a little bit, it changes to landscape and won't let you scroll through the pictures and you have to start over. It's just dumb. Stop changing the UI.

Messges is decent, but it has a few quirks: 1) Autocorrect is killing me. I swear I turned it off in settings, but it keeps haunting my texts and making me appear illiterate. 2) More ways to organize rec'd & sent texts would be useful. 3) The "group" feature needs fixed. You can create & name a group, but you cannot later recall it to send texts to that named group. Dumb.

What’s new

• Bug fixes and stability improvements.