Following last week’s announcement, Google Messages is widely rolling out features like “Snooze notifications” and “Delete for everyone” to the stable channel.
From the app’s homepage, long-pressing on a conversation reveals a new Snooze icon. The clock appears between pinning and archiving at the top.
Tapping brings up the “Snooze notifications” panel: “Other members will not see that you snoozed this chat.” There are four increments: 1 hour, 8 hours, 24 hours, and Always. After doing so, the conversation will be grayed out with a snooze icon underneath the time/date. To undo, long-press and hit the clock icon again.
Top comment by JG
I'd like to see Google go back to their circa 2012 mindset and give us a single iMessage like universal platform that can handle encrypted IMs (Chat) and RCS/SMS (Messages) rather than having them maintain both a pure consumer (Messages) and a hybrid consumer/enterprise (Chat).
Build it as a modern platform built specifically for the Gemini era. Focus on privacy & multi-device support so it doesn't matter if I pick up my phone, watch, tablet, Chromebook, or the website...
Meanwhile, when you’re in an RCS conversation, you can long-press on a sent message and tap the trash button for two options:
- Delete for everyone: Messages may still be seen by others on older app versions
- Delete for me
This finally matches the behavior of modern messaging services.
In addition to renaming RCS group chats, there’s the option to change the 2×2 circular grid of profile avatars to a custom icon. You can upload your own image or pick from Google Illustrations.
Finally, the New chat page now shows RCS status with a label at the right and Dynamic Color theming for stable users (version 20250528_00_RC00).
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