Google Message Facilities What are Rolling out (August 2025)

Standalone gallery

Google is Addressed to A complaint about fullscreen camera and gallery redesign Went in June By allowing users separately. You can open the ‘Plus’ menu for a new “gallery” grid that takes the entire screen. The “camera” opens the existing joint interface.

The shortcut at the end of the text box will possibly be unchanged as default.

Material 3 expressive redisine

Chat interface It now has its own container with round corners at the top. Google has removed the bubbly background for solid colors. ‘Plus’ menu It has its own container with large pills that lacks any background color.

Old vs new

Emoji, GIFS, Sticker and Photoji Picker Use connected button groups with that line and search bar. For example, you do not have back-to-back text fields.

,Search message“The page is re -designed with heavy use of containers.

It is also a case on the “New Chat” contact list.

How Google has improved Images appear in a threadSaubralized together with photos sent at the same time. Fullscreen image viewer A blurred background and final and next image are re -designed with preview, while you can react from the new lower line.

Finally, the Settings page also gets the content 3 expression.

Sensitive material warning

This safety feature with the ability to remove them before looking at “nudity”. It also reminds users of the risks of “sending nude imagery and stopping casual shares” that they send or do something that may have nudity.

Sensitive material warning On-device (through) Android system safetycore), No one has been sent to Google with no “classified material or result”. More than 18 people can alternately enable it to message settings> Safety and Safety> Manage Sensitive Material Warning.

Receipt readsine read

After the final redesign in early 2023, Another again The location message reads the receipts in a circle in the lower-right corner of the bubbles (and images). You leave all the timastamps and end-to-end encryption situation, while you swipe left to answer/quoted a message. It started rolling out in August 2024, with more people received it in November.

In January 2025Google ticked the design to make the circular background white. Now do not match the color of the bubbles, the read receipts are more standing a great deal.

LR: Current, new form, latest

Dual sim rCS support

More than one SIM card settings> will appear as “connected” in RCS chat. This will help in adopting international RCS. It started rolling in January 2024, but was later pulled with more reports This AugustIn form of In late OctoberMany more people – including America and physical + ESIM – are receiving it.

In form of January 2025More people are watching dual sim RC.

coming soon

Chief verification

But Android show In May, Google announced a major verification to help protect someone from scammers “trying to implement a person in Google messages. This tool allows you to verify the identity of the other party through public encryption keys.” Contact keys take the form of a scanable QR code that will be available in the Google CONTACTS app.

For example, if an attacker achieves access to a friend’s phone number and uses it on another device to send you a message – which can result in a SIM swap attack – their verification status of their contact can be compromised or changed to your friend’s account.

Google says that “the key verification will launch Google on Android 10+ devices in this summer later.”

Recently launched (stable)

(New) Description page redesign

Instead of pop-up, now the details are A fullscreen pageTo access, see a text/chat> three-dot overflow menu> details. Ingredients using 3 expressive containers, it begins with a good large preview of the message. Next is a “position” section that uses reed receipts, even if they do not appear anywhere else in the app. Puts things out “from”.

Old vs new

Custom group chat icon

Instead of looking up to four small circular profile pics of contacts in group chat, Google will allow you to set you Custom imageOpen the group details or tap the top bar of conversation, then hit the camera icon in the corner to upload.

Remove for all

When you are in an RCS chat, you have now Two delete options,

• Remove for all: Messages can still be seen by others on old app versions
• Remove for me

Notifications

Now you can do for “snooze chat”: 1 hour, 8 hours, 24 hours, or forever. To do this, the new alarm clock icon is pressed on the interaction from the main list for a long time or find it in the contact details page. The conversation will be grayed with a clock icon below time/date, while you will also find a banner inside the chat where you will find a “snooze stop”.

RCS status in ‘new chat’ contact list

“New interaction” becomes “page”new chat” – RCS vocabulary – lines more closely with the list. Contacts with RCS get a badge on the right, while their name and number allows dynamic color themeing instead of being black/white (SMS) only.

Gallery + camera again new form with sending ‘original quality’

Google Message Is merged Camera viewfinder and gallery. The old image picker was more compact and kept you in conversation. While taking photos or videos, you will always see 3-6 recent shots. Swipe shows more (with “folders” on the bottom), while you can “write a caption” before sending.

With this redisine, Google is rolling the ability to send pictures and videos to “original quality”. There are two media quality options on sending:

• “HD” Adapt for chat: Send quality media faster, uses low data
• “HD+” Original quality: The full media sends on the resolution

It has been in the test From NovemberAnd is now widely available.