Google has spent the last few months promoting the use of RCS, especially to Apple. Now that prayers have been answered and Apple has promised to jump on the bandwagon, they need to prepare for phase B: Google brings Messages into the new millennium thus, it can compete head-to-head with applications such as WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal or iMessage.

Google wants you to use Google Messages to communicate with RCS. After all, that’s why they abandoned Google Allo, their last attempt at messaging, to its fate. to convince you Many interesting new features are coming to Google Messages This will move the app away from the SMS of the past and bring it closer to WhatsApp and the company.

Format messages with flagging

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Google Messages It will allow us to format our messages with markupi.e. with different special codes. Something similar to text formatting in WhatsApp. but the real relationship is with Google Keep, where Google recently implemented the exact same thing.

We can write this way Bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, headings and links For bold, use standard markup formatting such as **bold**.

Noise cancellation in voice messages

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Messaging doesn’t just live on text messages, and Google Messages is preparing new features for voice notes as well, with an optional mode. noise canceling while recording.

If we want to take advantage of this, we can activate the noise canceling mode while recording a voice note. eliminate background noise and that we can be heard more clearly in the last recording.

Animated reactions

Remember MSN Messenger’s winks? They will more or less fall back to Google Messages. Application is being prepared animated reactions to messages This will add more color and movement to our conversations.

Somewhat similar to Telegram message reactions, but accompanied by Google Messages A bigger and more colorful animationAs you can see in the animation above, the entire message being reacted to is highlighted with a specific color.

Interface changes

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Finally, Google will also make some adjustments to the Messages interface. text box and user profile page with a slightly more minimalist version.

These changes, along with other already known changes such as personalized backgrounds for chats or support for photos in UltraHDR format, show us that: Google wants us to take Google Messages seriously As a WhatsApp alternative. It is not yet known whether it will work or not.

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