Google Messages App May Soon Allow Users to Edit Sent Texts

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 enhancing function for its Google Messages app. 

The addition of a brand new textual content enhancing function 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 function 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 accommodates the message ID, the newest message ID, and unique RCS message ID. It additionally mentioned to embrace two different columns for edited and obtained timestamps. Google Messages is believed to retailer particulars of the messages you edit and course of in these tables.

The message enhancing function for the Messages app isn’t but out there to the general public or confirmed by Google. It is predicted to help in fixing typos or making modifications to the messages after they’ve been despatched. The function 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 at present solely out there on the brand new Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro handsets, however will quickly be out there on extra gadgets. Google Messages app already exhibits typing indicators, and gives photograph and video sharing choices amongst others.