Google Messages, the popular messaging has recently achieved a significant milestone – reaching 1 billion RCS users and to celebrate this achievement, Google has unveiled seven new features to enhance the messaging experience for users worldwide.
Rich Communication Services (RCS) is an advanced messaging standard that improves the traditional SMS experience. It provides features such as typing indicators, read receipts, threaded replies, high-quality media sharing, improved group chats, better privacy like end-to-end encryption, and more.
With 1 billion users now using RCS, Google Messages is committed to further enhancing this messaging standard with new features. Let’s check out the seven new features of Google Messages, that will elevate your day to day messaging experience.
Photomoji
- Photomoji allows you to transform your favorite photos into reactions with the help of on-device Google AI.
- Want to react to a text with a snap of you or your four-legged best friend?
- Simply select the photo, choose the object you’d like to turn into a Photomoji and hit send.
- Your creations will be saved in a special tab for reuse and, as a bonus, your friends in group chats can use your sent Photomoji as well.
Voice Moods, plus improved audio quality
- Voice Moods bring life into voice messaging. With nine different emotions to choose from, your voice can sprinkle heart-eye emoji, fume with fireballs or break out the party popper so the recipient can hear your words along with a visual effect that expresses how you’re feeling at that moment.
Screen Effects
- With Screen Effects, your messages come alive with vibrant animations that will transform your words into dazzling visual displays.
- You just need to type specific messages like “it’s snowing” or “I love you” and watch your screen erupt in a symphony of colors and motion. And together with your friends, try to uncover all 15+ hidden Screen Effects prompt words.
Custom Bubbles
- With new Custom Bubbles, you can customize the bubble color and backgrounds of your conversation and the person you’re communicating with.
- Pick a different color for every chat if you like — it’s no longer about blue vs. green.
- Now you can differentiate your conversations and avoid accidentally texting your family group chat a weekend update meant for your friend.
Reaction Effects
- Reaction Effects is an addition to your messaging experience that injects more life into your conversations. Picture this:
- Your friend texts you to let you know the two of you have reservations to that trendy new restaurant that everyone has been buzzing about.
- If you react to the message with a simple 👍emoji, magic instantly unfolds as an animated trio of hands dances around the message bubble.
- This feature, designed to add a dynamic twist to your chats, embraces the power of expression with all ten of these popular emoji: 👍❤️ 😂😮😡👎💩🎉😠😢.
Animated Emoji
- While emoji are the foundation of our expressions when we text, Animated Emoji take it a step further by infusing each message with a captivating burst of visual effects.
- For example, if your friend sends you a message revealing the breathtaking vacation spot they just booked for your trip and in response you tap ❤️, you’ll unleash an Animated Emoji that sparkles with a dazzling pink heart to properly express your excitement.
Profile
- With Profiles, you have the power to personalize your profile name and picture that accompanies your phone number.
- Google knows that self-expression is important, and with Profiles, you can now shape how you appear across Google services.
- This addresses the problem of receiving messages from phone numbers not saved in your contacts, which can be particularly useful in group chats so that you know who all the other participants in the group are.
