Following the camera and gallery redesign, Google Messages is testing a new long-press menu for text and image actions.
Previously, Google Messages used a toolbar at the top of the screen to surface available actions. Only three actions were surfaced and everything else was placed in an overflow menu.
When you long press on a message or image, Google will now show a floating menu with Remix (photos only), Reply, Forward, Copy (text), Star, Delete, Select more, Info, and Save (photos).
Top comment by Adam Mack
I hate that I have to click twice on an image that was shared via text to be able to see it in full screen or to zoom in on it. So you click the image in the text, then that stupid half-floating picture pops up with the remix banana icon, then I have to click the image again to blow it up to full screen size to be able to zoom in. Google is so stupid for this! More steps just to see an image sent to us. They have knack for making things worse and adding clicks/steps for basic easy processes.
Google will partially center the text or image with a bouncy animation and haptic feedback.
Old vs. new
Each action is accompanied by an icon at the front, while Messages prominently blurs the background layer. The row of emoji and “Create” shortcut are unchanged.
We’re seeing this rolled out with beta version 20251212_00_RC01 of Google Messages following a server-side update.
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