FIRST things you NEED to setup in Google Messages!

[@jaughnekow]

Honestly, google rcs messaging is simple and amazing. The only disadvantage is that it's not automatically updated for supported devices.

[@Influence4lyfe]

And it often is hit or miss. Like my kids have it working but my wife doesn't and we can't seem to get her back on it with us in a group chat and even outside of the group she still doesn't have it with me but has it with others so IDK why it does that once it's equally readily available to all users it'll be the best thing ever

[@kyb7795]

@@Influence4lyfe try getting her on the beta program that worked for me

[@Samp1eTech]

It actually is. I know a lot of people that are using it and when I've mentioned RCS, they look at me like I'm crazy. They never went into settings or anything. It just automatically turns on. I've proven this many times on my own by SIM swapping between devices and making sure I have RCS turned off before swapping my SIM back and it flips RCS on.

[@SayPedia]

Supported device u meant old Android versions?

[@HiddenAgendas]

it also uses up a shit load of battery. I and to uninstall it. No sure why it needs to send thousands of data packets to base every minute. And why the fuck does it have a key logger enabled? Strange! I deleted that shit once my phone notified me of the keylogger built in. I own a Huawei and it so far and detected keyloggers on the Google Messaging app and the Microsoft swiftkey.

[@oneminutewonder77]

Honestly Google have done an excellent job with their platform. I really don't think it needs to care about the entire iMessage deal. Texting my friends with Android phones is now so much better. I just wish that the dynamic themes would have more than just pastel colors.

[@Rennsaiyan13]

Agreed

[@MrOldskool1974]

Exactly!

[@mikethatguy27]

YES!! Agree 100%

[@munibhanu6179]

Hi

[@dorothycharles5368]

It would be nice if we could add a background for our contacts.

[@jasonelliot9633]

Yes thats why I'm watching this pointless video I want to be able to customize my numbers with a picture of them

[@Wstghntnfk]

Google messages and RCS messages is great. Ever since I've used a smartphone I've wanted the capability to mark a text as unread so I would remember to go back to it. I was so thrilled to see that Google Messages added the Message Reminder feature so if you read a message but can't reply right then you can add a reminder to it and you won't miss it later. I also love that if the AI thinks you should have replied to a message, it will give you a little pop-up asking "hey, do you need to respond to this?!?"

[@7PitBullz]

After you type a message if you hold down the send button for a few seconds you get the option to schedule a specific time and date for automatic message delivery

[@ChristopherFawcett-tb3oq]

I'm going to try and make it look good.RCS I'M YOU NOW 5:28

[@donotneed2250]

Yep. Been doing it so long I can't recall when I started.

[@BradfordRussell-m3d]

​@@ChristopherFawcett-tb3oq4:25

[@AquaStevae]

Why suddenly is there no way to change the background of the messaging window, or the color of the chat bubbles???? WHERE IS GOOGLES ARTISTIC SIDE? Even in this vid, a plain white background with pastel bubbles is BORRRRRRRING!!!!!! Even MicroSoft has more style than that!!! It used to be that I could easily add a custom background, instead of just black or white. Why oh why would Google delete that???? The entire "Background" setting is GONE!!!! WHY???? ALLOW PEOPLE TO CUSTOMIZE AS THEY LIKE GOOGLE!!!!! We should be able to make the conversation bubbles any colors we want, and change their transparency. Give people the power of customizing. It's what the entire phone industry is about. We all customize our phones and every app to our own liking. Why is Google falling behind in these functions????

[@mean_ice2833]

ok kid.

[@Z_3D]

Lol that's what I came to this vid for. Guess it's not an option. Makes my phone feel like a work chat 😢

[@TCave]

calm down 😂

[@mrmossimop]

I'd like to see Fingerprint security added for google messages

[@joelombardi4907]

Great video.....How do I customize the app? Such as colors, themes, etc. All I have as options is light or dark theme. I can't change colors or anything. It would be cool if I could make my text a specific color. Grey seems to be the only option.

[@msmeya5]

I hate that too. I just downloaded today looking for a different app than Verizon Message+. Ugh. 😢 I need some color pop in my text life!

[@akshaydraj]

That Tim Cook contact in message is 😂

[@paulhere404]

Can't find 'message organisation' on my 8t for the OTP option.

[@veloonbruts9707]

I think its gone.

[@Z_3D]

You can pin to the top I believe that's it

[@dchevalier60]

Detailed but specially looking for how to copy all or part of a text to create a new text. Currently when pressing on the text all I get is emojis

[@fishingindasea]

Can you not change the conversation themes to different colors? And or change it to light theme?

[@the_garniiics]

I wish they would have a bubbles feature that applies to saved contacts only as selecting each individual contact is a bit cumbersome

[@benzi_]

I can't see the organization section in message settings. what version of messages is this? (using pix 6)

[@enkidu77]

i have Galaxy S22U .. i don't either have that option.

[@benzi_]

@@enkidu77 even installed beta, its not here.

[@Yinzzy656]

Im on Samsung as well. Have to opt in the beta. I definitely have it.

[@hemajith223]

Same issue here on a Pixel 6 Pro. Organization option is not available.

[@amandacrenshaw5182]

Hi! Great tutorial. Can you add photos/customize each persona's rest and conversation bubbles (not the bubbles in there now)?

[@14thabz]

They do need to add "mark message as read" an option for swiping away messages

[@ShaneOzouf]

I don't understand why RCS isn't enabled by default.. on ALL android devices.

[@shomari17]

Exactly

[@KeithLaursen]

You can schedule a message but no way to delay send. I have a 8 second delay on textra and its amazing what I catch and fix after hitting send.

[@ReidWhitsettLLR]

I am checking some of the things recommended in this video and many features/ settings no longer exist or are changed. As usual with documentation or reviews for software, the information is invalid as soon as it is produced. Perhaps updating the information based on the current version of the app would be more useful for users.

[@MrStrictlyOLED]

My s23 ultra doesn’t have rcs for some reason

[@immortal3667]

Not a bad program, but a lot still needs to be done 1. iPhone rcs 2. Photos are not compressed, but to view a photo in good quality, you need to download it and view it in the gallery. 3. Auto-save photo/video in google photo this is the main thing that is missing

[@neorich59]

TBH, everyone I message on a regular basis, uses What's App, so I rarely use the text messaging option and, since I've never liked the onboard Messaging Apps on previous Android phones, I've always downloaded YAATA (and Swiftkey) automatically, as it's really customizable. But, I'll give Google Messages a shot, but I'll still stick with Swiftkey. There's nothing to touch it, IMO.

[@Yinzzy656]

Gboard>Swiftkey sorry

[@neorich59]

@@Yinzzy656 No worries. I think I've tried Gboard and went back to Swiftkey due to the long press options for punctuations etc. Unless I have it wrong, or it's changed, that isn't available on Gboard? With Swiftkey I rarely ever have to "toggle" to get to some of the characters. But, I'll have another look! 😉😉

[@vedanshchn]

On Android, Swiftkey is just horrible. It was great in iOS tho they removed it recently.

[@vedanshchn]

@@neorich59 Gboard has the long press for more punctuation marks since Android 5 days or even before.

[@jessyk2579]

I have used, Gboard and SwiftKey extensively. For sure, the suggestions are better in SwiftKey. Decided to stay with SwiftKey.

[@aun7511]

i would actually use it this but my family and my friends always use third party massages apps like messenger, line i don't want to force them

[@TitanTubs]

Does Google leverage some of these features of pixel phones only? I don't see this in Samsung

[@TitanTubs]

Edit. It just showed up when I opened the app again... That's not spooky at all.

[@MrBala2191]

Another issue with this app is categories not sorted out when reinstalled. Every time it shows sorting still in progress but never happened.

[@khalid_ansari99]

When a message is received, we can view the message in the notification bar without opening the messages app, also there is a button for reply, we can reply from the notification bar itself by tapping on it. How to get a delete button there in the notification bar?

[@JoJoOnYouTube]

How many messaging apps will Google Have till they're satisfied?

[@jeffreybower5959]

i have the s24 ultra and honestly,, i tried this when i first setup my phone and i prefer the facebook messanger bubbles than the google messages chat bubbles!! i just wish that they can allow users to change the chat backgrounds wallpaper on the google messages app that was pre installed!! i used to change these on the samsung messages app on my older samsung phone, but now that old samsung messages app have tooo many ads!!!

[@TheLz89]

I wish they would add divider lines between chats(edit: to show a split between contacts, not the individual chat itself). I dislike the flat continuous display of all chats just there, without any breaks to separate them.

[@mikethatguy27]

Yes! I agree 100% , Drives me crazy.

[@curtwest7409]

You guys do such a fantastic job. Outstanding channel. Well done👍.

[@GS-mh6ub]

Why can you no longer switch the Google message font to the preferred font of your choice?

[@susantmasi]

Did anyone ask about autocorrect? I may have missed it? Great info!

[@urmanascrewed]

Can you scroll through your conversations quickly like with Samsung messages?

[@LionRoars918]

Can you do a video on how to get notification sounds to work properly in Google Messages ? They don't work on my Pixel 8a. Google is no help as they couldn't fix the issue even after a factory reset. I have had to use another application to get them to work correctly.

[@Denise-xj8dm]

I have downloaded fonts. Why can't I use them in Google messages. They only work in Samsung messages

[@granthogden4732]

Unfortunately I need to use samsung messages. Mainly because of the categories feature. Eg I liase with several contacts on behalf of several family members I am a semi carer for as for several reasons. So I NEED to have each family member and their medical supports in their categories eg family member A, family member B etc. So until google messages has this I need to stick with samsung messages

[@johndeverson3533]

Customize the color of the message of sim 1 and sim 2 so it can easily identify if the message comes from sim 1 or sim 2

[@woodlandxwarrior]

How are you separating sim 1 and 2? It automatically puts things into personal or business?

[@WriterPal]

Honestly, I have been using the default Samsung Messages app since I have a Galaxy S20 FE phone and can use bubbles and RCS but do absolutely miss using custom text alerts for certain friends and family members and wish I could message on my computer with the same app but it only has Google messages and Google messages for web.

[@rp9298]

Is there a way around it stopping sync across devices when you turn on chat features? Doesn't seem worth giving up sync.

[@ibstayfly]

For groupchat whenever I wanna add someone to a group it creates a separate group instead of adding them to the current group why is that Are messages encrypted. Is this app safe and secure to use. If not are there any other secure messaging apps to use Is there a way to reply to a specific person in a group. Like if you only wanna respond to one person I don't have the chat bubble. And when I send messages it doesn't say sent or delivered Thank you for this video very informative. I will try to see if I can enable these features

[@rnovia80]

if i get a new phone and my old phone has all my text messages on google messages is there a way to transfer them to the new phone. i have stuff in texts that i would not like lose.

[@sethmunoz3608]

The number one feature I use on Google messages is the web link service

[@seanpfeiffer305]

New phone..... uses Messages and I used to be able to hold down on screen and "Copy" would come up. I need this again. Now it brings up stuopid imogee suggestions. Any ideas?

[@SirPedro83]

Also, I do watch these videos ad they come out.

[@byavarsi]

Still not convinced to give up Microsoft SMS organizer. It's the organization.

[@johnterdik4707]

do you have an updated video? It seems that Google has enhanced the app since your posting and it is difficult to implement your suggestions, at least for me it is!

[@Redbone380]

I wonder why in your advance settings on google messages app you have 5 things you can enable, mine only has 3 things to enable

[@ollieedwardes1461]

Google should make most of these on by default

[@MrGogofoxx]

For some reason i don't have this Message organization option on my pixel 7 pro , so is this feature spacefic to some areas or not rolled out yet to all users ?

[@arvalan]

I also don't have, I guess it regional

[@MrGogofoxx]

@@arvalan yea i thought so too , but when i contacted google support , they made sure it is not regional 😅. So i don't really know anymore

[@djratino]

Only a few of my friends can receive RCS messages, even though they have RCS capabilities. I have mine set to MMS on my contacts that can not receive them.

[@911soham]

One thing I really don't like, is the google messaging app does not allow you to write a message and save it as a draft without putting a contact details first. If you want to write something you need to choose a contact first then only the writing window appears. its very annoying if you just want to write and save something as a draft.

[@ranaropar]

Hi sometimes we receive notifications from lets say Bank or security company everytime there is an transaction or event. Now we have lots of sms's piled up from one number, you only want to keep only recent ones. In Google messages to delete old messages I need to select each message one by one, or delete all. It will be nice to have an option to quickly select only those messages which we want to delete messages sent from a specific number. However this feature is available in Huawei messages, I tested it on my P40

[@sbatty65227]

I know what I need to say and I know how to type it. The only thing I think is worth its weight is the swipe function to delete messages.

[@KevinGarcia-Karatzu]

Only problem is I don't have a search bar or profile circle and not sure how to add it. Cannot find anything online.

[@edwardnigma653]

They still should not have removed the custom color personalization.

[@nacekozo]

It may well be a good app, but I don't know anyone that uses Google messages

[@tajonlewis2706]

How can you change the fonts?

[@sheilahazard]

how to set an automatic reply. an 'away' message or 'driving' message

[@victoranthony1484]

I wish I knew how to change the notification sounds.

[@allisonalexis6645]

Thank you so much for your video o really enjoyed watching

[@fidato_]

I prefer the minimal design of Samsung Messages over Google messages. Nobody uses Google messages here so I am cool with Samsung. But I do feel thta Google should take over so more people can get connected to each other . Google messaging should be the default on every Android phone

[@megabaneen8057]

Thanks.. 👍 great tutorial..

[@justinengland9814]

It would be amazing it if worked!

[@cristianoashok8410]

Do people still use the message app, after my school days I've never seen anyone using these.

[@henuemphuse]

Honestly I prefer Samsung messages. I have a lot of texts from a lot of different numbers. I prefer being able to make my own categories for things like work, gov, ect. I had Google messages all of an hour on my s22 before realizing I hated it and switched to Samsung messages. Im not scrolling for 10 minutes to an hour to find the conversation im looking for.

[@jibberoverjava]

Does Google Messenger RCS encrypted voice messages from it's own Google data collection or are we unwittingly authoring Google to be the Data Pirate of yet more of our data?

[@juned_sumra]

Enabling chat features in Google message app will also show ads which is why I unistalled it and currently using samsung message app.

[@oregonhomeowner]

Is it possible to edit the smart replies?

[@mightyskull]

Nice sweater man!

[@aefelton9804]

Can google messages read aloud incoming text messages? Especially when driving?

[@sole__doubt]

A feature on an android that I wish was on ios. Thats a first for me, its usually the other way around.

[@Yinzzy656]

Um whats the feature?????

[@CobraDriftKing]

My gifs don't work when receiving them and some pictures when receiving them come out black & white and super grainy

[@ExtremelyClever555]

I am using google messages app and whenever I create a group text, and a few minutes later I need to add someone else to it, it creates another group instead of going to the original group. How can I fix this? My phone is a Samsung Galaxy Flip 4. OMG this so frustrating to me....Help! Help! Help!

[@Dragon100277]

What is RCS messaging? I noticed on select messages you can like and react to messages. I turned it off

[@cmdrxevaster]

Sadly, S22 Ultra in Canada doesn't offer the message organization options or Voice message transcription.

[@Paoabarai]

Same some of these features not available in my pixel 7 in my region

[@yiannisd8286]

Good, helpful video. My only advice is to try to speak more clearly because sometimes you go into bursts where you speak fast and your accent is a little hard to understand. Keep making great content!

[@kerrisemlow3297]

How do you change the blue color back mine turned brownish or greenish color and I get checked marks below my text messages I send

[@aayushrautela]

Any comments about google blocking RCS in unsupported countries (I am talking about EU, not some third world countries lacking infrastructure to support the service)

[@erick-gd7wo]

In my country where all of smartphone users use WhatsApp, RCS sounds quite alien to them. I might understand how to activate it without any proof, whether *it really works or only turned on without any action* . I have only 1 or 2 contacts who has RCS seemingly active among 90% Android users. That's where I turned RCS OFF...

[@KLASSYCHICA]

how do you add i message (blue icon) to iphone

[@hemasirivithanage]

Hemasiri

[@davidkloempkenMN]

Question how do I get the profile pics back? On the main page, you have a list of contacts I chat with, but if I go to one, the photo is there. on the main page, it just changed to their first letter. I didn't change anything help?

[@Verlamian]

Thanks but I really didn't need the frustration of searching for settings and associated features that aren't yet available to non-beta users.

[@daisyboi]

haha I'm glad it's not just me like??????

[@daisyboi]

spent a good 15 mins searching for how to turn on otp auto delete!!

[@enkidu77]

i am using Galaxy S22 Ultra. The Google Messages app i have in my phone does not have these options you mentioned in your video. Are you using a Pixel phone?? also maybe you are using a beta App of Google Messages??

[@Yinzzy656]

Yes hes on pixel. However if you opt in to the Beta you will get most of those features.

[@aleciles]

Got them on my S21 Ultra, have you turned on Chat features?

[@enkidu77]

@@aleciles yes

[@blakemoody5866]

only complaint about google messages is there arent catagories like samsung messages, or a way to have message templates. Being able to quickly put a samsung note into a text is a crucial feature so I am not constantly copy and pasting things

[@pepea2610]

Yes!! This is what I'm looking for. I don't see Quick Responses anymore in my new phone. How do you use Templates in Samsung Messages?

[@cowmbing]

I have RCS but don't have the "Message organization" in settings. is it because Pixels are not officially in my country?

[@birchtree5884]

Annoying that RCS doesn't work when a VPN is on. Gotta put Carrier Services and Messages thru split tunnelling.

[@NotSaino]

0:11 "and on other few android phones" not few, every android phone other than samsung phones has Google messages as default sms app

[@mlgen7]

Chat categories is not rolled out completely right? I don't see it yet.

[@JimboJones99]

On my S23 Ultra I can't use any reactions when messaging other google messages contacts

[@swsf]

I never use messengers. absolutely everyone around me uses WhatsApp. I think I wrote the last SMS two years ago

[@NelsonTouchett]

Do you know how to remove the "TOAST" notifications that are the major issue IMO for GM

[@user-up1dk3um2m]

i have a question all of sudden my s24 ultra is sending my verification codes to whatsapp and not to my regular text messages , how do i fix it ?

[@itsjustashow]

What holder is that for the pixel watch?!

[@LermsHash]

Blocked at configuration.....i try all but it doesn't ....

[@excuse.me.sir.]

I really like RCS messaging, but for some reason when I enable it, I don't receive any texts if I'm not connected to WiFi or mobile data. Is that normal? So I just leave it disabled because I don't like to always be connected to the internet. Especially when I'm at work because my signal is pretty weak and it drains the shit out of my battery

[@therealbobafett]

Do you have data saver enabled? It would be in your system settings. I used to have that enabled and RCS never worked for me until I turned it off

[@nicholasmoffett4327]

yes, it's normal. RCS is carried out via wifi/data, not through the same service as SMS. (actually, MMS is also carried through data, but android devices tend to temporarily reenable data to send MMS and it usually doesn't show up on a phone bill anyway)

[@excuse.me.sir.]

@@nicholasmoffett4327 ok thanks for letting me know. I appreciate that

[@jackwright9616]

Is there a way to so that when i click on messages menu and see all my messages if someone last message was a picture they sent me to not show that on the menu its kinda annoying?

[@markaaroneugenio4036]

how do you know if the text message was sent through sim 1 or sim 2 on Google messages? I don't think it has that feature. Or if there is, can someone teach me? 😅

[@akshayHRX]

How to take backup of messages, please review

[@katlyncarter8890]

I’m trying to get my chat features to work! It will not verify at all, I have done everything to make it work and still doesn’t.

[@bogineniharshitha8955]

Does it have activity status in google messages