Google Messages pinned chats redesign rolls out to beta users
Google Messages pinned chats are receiving an updated layout with large contact photos in beta, alongside a new floating search button.

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Google Messages pinned chats are receiving an updated layout with large contact photos in beta, alongside a new floating search button.

Rich Communication Services (RCS) has reshaped Google Messages, bringing read receipts, larger media attachments, and cross-platform messaging with iPhone users. RCS isn't without its own issues, though, and Messages has so far offered an easy way to opt out on a per-chat basis if it causes problems - a feature that now looks like it
WhatsApp is testing a new way to keep selected conversations off a person's linked devices, such as a laptop, tablet, or secondary phone. The company is expanding Advanced Chat Privacy with a new restriction that limits a chat to each participant's primary phone, and renaming the setting to Restricted Chat to make its purpose clearer.

Google Messages has been on a tear lately when it comes to new features, which makes sense given that Samsung shut down its own Messages app on July 6. There are clearly some big shoes to fill here, and Google has been polishing things up quickly as a result. Individually, plenty of these tweaks are

The first mobile application, called “OpenAI ChatGPT” on the Apple App Store, has now been released, as the US company OpenAI stated over the weekend on its own portal. The AI bot is currently free and only has a few features. ChatGPT for the Apple devices only for now Real enthusiasm has grown around the

Telegram‘s founder Pavel Durov has disclosed that the company plans to add a premium membership service to its already remarkable feature set. Telegram is a popular chat app that prioritizes privacy and security. It competes with WhatsApp and Signal in the same market, but it stands out for the sheer variety of functions it offers

WhatsApp is the most popular messaging software in the world, offering a variety of services in addition to regular text chats. However, you can't quickly start a chat with numbers that aren't recorded in your contacts list. Fortunately, frequent leaker WABetaInfo has dug through Android beta software version 2.22.8.11 and discovered that the firm is

They're useful for triaging messages and reminders that you don't want or need to focus on, whether they're used for navigating the operating system as implemented in Android 10 or for quickly performing tasks in apps like Gmail or Twitter. Swipe gestures are also useful if you, like me, choose to use your phone with
