Application Google Newswhich is present by default on most smartphones Android and supports Rich Communication Services (RCS), has reached one billion users. To celebrate, the search giant has decided to introduce some additional features.

For those who are lost, RCS is a messaging standard that came a long time ago to replace SMS and MMS protocols and compared to them, it provides some additional options like write indicators, read receipts, media sharing. improved group chats and end-to-end encryption for more privacy. In case anyone missed it and said it rudely, it’s the app that generally takes care of “SMS” on Android.

As we said earlier, the Google News app has a number of new features to celebrate one billion users, which are:

• Photomoji: It relies on Google’s device-level artificial intelligence to create personalized reactions from photos.
• Moods for you: allows you to add emotion to voice messages using various effects.
• Screen Effects: brings messages to life with animations that are activated by specific phrases.
• Custom bubbles: opens the door to customize bubble and background colors for individual conversations.
• Reaction effects: Animated effects can be added to enhance reactions, making reactions with simple emoticons more dynamic and expressive.
• Animated emoticons: It is also possible to add visual effects to emoticon expressions to add emotion and liveliness to messages.
• Profiles: It allows users to customize a profile name and picture associated with their phone number, helping to identify specific contacts and participants in group conversations.

As we can see, Google Messages is a successful application that is used by many people today, despite the presence of more powerful and dynamic paper services such as WhatsApp and Telegram. Nowadays, it is not strange to see the public administration in Spain reaching out to users via SMS, which makes an app like this useful.