5 Samsung Messages Features That Google Messages Is Still Missing

Samsung Messages closes within a few weeks. Starting in July, the app will no longer be supported, and Samsung will force users to switch to Google Messages instead. As it turns out, Samsung Messages has a lot of dedicated fans Android Authority‘s readership and all of you have sounded off in our comments about the Samsung app’s features that Google doesn’t offer.

Google Messages has been adding impressive new features frequently lately – new trash can last month, real-time location sharing weeks ago – but still there a lot that the program can’t do. Here are five Samsung Messages features Android Authority‘s commenters say they’ll miss the program the most after it’s discontinued.

Samsung Messages allows users to extensively customize their chats with the ability to manually select chat colors and even set images as chat backgrounds. This feature came up in the comments of almost everyone Android Authority A post about the impending shutdown of Samsung Messages.

Google Messages doesn’t offer the same level of customization. You can edit the chat colors, but that’s it for now. Fortunately, we found proof of this in the Google Messages code custom chat backgrounds are in the works: Lines in a recent beta build of Google’s app repeatedly refer to individual themes, including one that specifically mentions custom theme backgrounds.

That was a few weeks ago, so it’s entirely possible we’ll see chat customization in Google Messages on par with what Samsung Messages offers when users are forced to make the switch. With luck, individual threads will be migrated along with the message content, but I wouldn’t hold my breath.

Samsung Messages allows users to create folders for group chats, making it easy to connect conversations about work, family life, hobbies or just about anything that’s going on. Although Google Messages can filter spam in its view and now has a trash folder, it does not support categorizing conversations.

Android Authority the reader Jamie McMahon In fact, valuing this option over conversation topics, Google commented that we should “stop focusing on the ways we can change the way our messages look and focus on the ways we can organize our messages.” I have to agree there.

One UI offers an option to vibrate your phone every time you pick it up when there are missed calls or unread text messages. Commentator Chris4wwf notes that this feature is not currently supported by Google Messages: When the “Notify when phone is picked up” setting is enabled, Samsung phones will vibrate when there are unread messages in Samsung Messages, but not in Google messaging.

Users have been complaining about this functional loophole on Samsung forums for some time and the problem still remains unsolved. last month. It’s something on Google or Samsung’s end, ideally, that will be ironed out soon.

Samsung prevents your conversations from getting too long by automatically deleting the oldest texts after reaching 1,000 in the Samsung Messages settings labeled “Delete old messages”. Commentator greg.sirmon It’s frustrating that Google Messages doesn’t include any option to automatically delete old text messages, instead only allowing you to manually delete individual texts or entire text headers.

I’ve never been bothered by excessively long conversations, but as someone who appreciates a tidy digital space, I can sympathize. I don’t understand why Google Messages doesn’t offer options to automatically delete old messages.

a lot Android Authority As Samsung’s app is meaningful competition for Google in the Android messaging space, readers said they were sad to see Samsung Messages go.

Of course, there are other text clients on Android (Fossify and Textra are two relatively popular options), not to mention great multi-platform options like Telegram and WhatsApp. But Samsung Messages began phasing out RCS last year, leaving Google Messages as the only RCS game in town. That will be the case for the foreseeable future, as Samsung’s implementation was almost completely scrapped this summer.