Google Messages might give its read receipts a new home and design

What you have to know

Customers on Reddit reported new learn receipt indicators for RCS chats in Google Messages and an APK teardown supplied extra perception.Per the teardown, Google is testing a change in Messages that strikes these despatched/delivered indicators contained in the bubble together with your textual content.A Reddit consumer found that you simply’d should press and maintain a message and drag it to view the time it was despatched.

Google is reportedly growing a redesign for its RCS textual content indicators in Messages.

The corporate is growing a (kind of) “in-line” learn receipt notification for its RCS-enabled chats. Customers on Reddit have reported these new indicators on their gadgets whereas within the Google Messages beta (by way of Android Authority). Extra importantly, the publication performed an APK dive of the latest beta model (messages.android_20241029_00_RC00)

From screenshots shared on Reddit to the publication’s teardown, these new indicators will occupy the right-most nook of your textual content bubble.

Additional digging exhibits that the animations have modified, too. In response to the publish, sending a message is accompanied by an ellipsis (three dots) earlier than turning right into a single test mark. A second test mark — or a part of it — seems towards the primary, exhibiting that the message has been despatched and delivered efficiently.

These new receipt indicators are (doubtlessly) all the time current within the textual content thread irrespective of the variety of messages. This contrasts how Messages is presently the place essentially the most lately despatched textual content shows its RCS despatched/delivered indicators. Moreover, a consumer on Reddit within the beta states Google modified how one can see the time of a textual content.

The consumer states customers should “maintain and pull the display to see the time the message got here/despatched.” After, the app will mechanically drop the textual content to cowl these further particulars.

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Because the take a look at expands to extra customers, it is unclear when Google will roll this out. Stories of those revamped indicators have been posted lately, so the corporate will probably wait some time for suggestions/testing earlier than pushing it to everybody.

It is value remembering that Google Messages used to (digitally) say “Sending…” and “Despatched” when texting others. That modified final yr when the corporate launched the brand new checkmarks we have develop into accustomed to seeing within the app. With this variation looming, Google strikes them from beneath your message, beside the time, to contained in the bubble together with your textual content.

Apart out of your texts, it was reported lately that Google Messages might obtain further privateness choices by way of Profile Discovery. Such choices embrace exhibiting your title and profile icon to “folks you message,” “solely contacts,” or “nobody.” These additions have been found on the setup display for the Messages app.