followed by announcement last monthGoogle Messages has rolled out a new Trash folder to save you from accidental deletions.
Previously, deleting a conversation would immediately delete it from your Android phone. The new Trash folder serves as a “safety net.”
After tapping the Trash icon, Google Messages will explain the new behavior: “The conversation will be deleted after 30 days.”
This “grace period” gives you one month before the conversations are permanently deleted. (On Android Go devices, it’s 7 days to “save space”.)
You can access the Trash folder from the account menu by clicking on your profile picture in the upper right corner. It appears under Archived, which is unchanged today.
This list shows how many messages are in each conversation. You can “Remove All” or quickly restore all or individual themes to the home screen.
At the same time, if a conversation in the Trash receives a new message, the previous ones remain in the Trash, and “only the new thread with the new message appears in your main chat list.”
We see the Google Messages Trash can become widespread with stable version 20260327_00_RC00 of the application.
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