Google’s Messages App May Quickly Permit Customers to Edit Despatched Texts; Reportedly in Testing

Google has been providing a number of important updates to its Messages app that appear poised to make the platform extra aggressive within the coming days. Recently, it gained Ultra HDR assist in RCS (Rich Communication Services) chats and extra enhancements together with photomoji, and animated stickers have been added to the app. Now, the search big is reportedly engaged on a WhatsApp-like message modifying characteristic for its Google Messages app. 

The addition of a brand new textual content modifying characteristic in Google Messages was noticed by The SPAndroid. The publication has picked out 4 flags — bugle.enable_edit_ui, bugle.load_edit_history, bugle.process_outgoing_edits, and bugle.process_incoming_edits— that time to an edit characteristic within the beta model of Google Messages app that was launched within the final week of November. 

Further, an APK teardown of the Google Messages app by the publication indicated that Google is making a brand new desk within the messages database to maintain particulars of edited messages. This desk allegedly comprises the message ID, the most recent message ID, and unique RCS message ID. It additionally mentioned to incorporate two different columns for edited and acquired timestamps. Google Messages is believed to retailer particulars of the messages you edit and course of in these tables.

The message modifying characteristic for the Messages app shouldn’t be but obtainable to the general public or confirmed by Google. It is anticipated to help in fixing typos or making modifications to the messages after they’ve been despatched. The characteristic may bear a number of updates earlier than the ultimate launch.

Google has introduced a number of updates to the Messages app over the previous few months. The California-based tech big added Ultra HDR assist in RCS chats final month. This performance permits customers to share high-quality photos of their RCS messages. The Ultra HDR picture format is presently solely obtainable on the brand new Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro handsets, however will quickly be obtainable on extra units. Google Messages app already exhibits typing indicators, and gives picture and video sharing choices amongst others.