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The Sun
21-05-2025
- The Sun
Embarrassing text mistake we've all made can now be FIXED after Google makes major change to millions of phones
GOOGLE pals may soon be able to unsend your unwanted messages. The surprising new feature would allow other people to erase texts you've sent. The company was previously potted testing a 'Delete for everyone' option in late March. Now, the tech giant looks set to roll out the option for some users. Reddit user seeareeff reported seeing the "Delete for everyone" option in at least one group conversation in Google Messages with 12 people. They went on to add that the option does not apply to smaller groups or in on-to-one chats. If applied, Google users will have fifteen minutes to remove texts they wish to delete. SPAM SOLUTION Elsewhere, a new button is being introduced by Google messages to enable phone users to stop receiving unwanted SMS texts or RCS chats. This function has been built into the Google Messages app as a tool to make it easier for people to stop receiving automated texts that often come as spam. It involves an "unsubscribe" button for Google messages that may be promotions or other "non-essential content". The new feature can appear at the bottom of the chat, just above the text field, or in the conversation's overflow menu if it seems like spam. An option to "unsubscribe to stop receiving messages" becomes available for RCS business messages for those in the UK, US, Brazil, France, Germany, india, Mexico, and Spain. Google reveals 'Advanced Protection' for VIPs – and you can use it too Just tap on this button and you can start the process of receiving messages from that particular sender. A short list of reasons will then appear as why you are unsubscribing. It includes selections like: "Not signed up", "Too many messages", "No longer interested", "Spam", and "Other". When the "Spam" option is clicked, it will then provide a "Report this sender" button. From this, Google Messages tells the sender to "STOP" sending messages to your number, and a notice saying "you should no longer receive non-essential messages from that sender" appears. Essential and requested messages can still be received from the sender after unsubscribing. This includes one-time passwords or boarding passes requested from the business, or confirmation of the unsubscribe request with information to further manage communication preferences from them. A business may also be unable to comply with unsubscribe requests, and will subsequently redirect you to account settings to change message notifications throughout you account. You can go to the overflow menu if you want to resubscribe to the sender's messages. The button should not be used interchangeably with blocking, as Google Messages does not yet detect spam automatically. The new button is also for the Google Messages app specifically, so does not apply to the regular messages app that comes on Samsung or iPhone devices.
Digital Trends
09-05-2025
- Digital Trends
Google Messages finally gets proper unsend functionality with ‘Delete for everyone'
Over the years, Google Messages has picked up features that elevate its status to a deserving Apple Messages substitute. The latest addition, allowing you to fully unsend messages, is now reaching a breadth of Android users, saving them the pain of awkwardness of wrongly sent texts. After previewing the 'Delete for everyone' feature in its Messages app, Google is releasing it to people beyond the beta testing tribe. As expected, the functionality allows senders of the message to delete it for all parties in a peer-to-peer or a group chat and replaces older functionality where deleted messages would still appear for others. Recommended Videos The Delete for everyone functionality was spotted by a Redditor with a username seeareeff (via 9to5Google), but they did not specify which version of Google Messages you need to get it working. We could not activate it at our end despite updating the app to the latest version, suggesting this might be a server-side switch. Notably, these changes will only apply to messages and chats over RCS — a relatively modern internet-based messaging protocol that Google hopes, but has trouble budging Apple, to replace traditional SMS. That means everyone in the chat must have RCS enabled, which is anyway necessary if you want to enjoy features like message reactions or typing indicators, to enjoy the functionality. You must also update Google Messages to the latest version, else deleted messages may still appear for some folks. Besides chats with others who use Google Messages, the cross-platform nature of RCS means that it should, in theory, also work seamlessly with Apple Messages. This is because Apple recently adopted RCS along with its own iMessage protocol for the Messages app. One requisite, however, is the other people must have updated their iPhone or iPad to iOS 18. It's still not fool-proof, though, since RCS may require setting up for some people (from Google Messages' settings) and may not be supported by every telecom carrier. With Google Messages now adopted as the de-facto messaging app for Android, we can expect Google to push for aggressive standardization.
