Google Messages introduces two features that your group chats have been longing for.

      Google Messages has rolled out two significant quality-of-life improvements that address two commonly experienced issues in group chats.

      If you’ve ever sent a message in a busy Google Messages group and watched it disappear without acknowledgment, you’re not alone. Those overlooked messages can easily get lost among others' texts, reactions, or GIFs, often requiring you to resend them.

      Fortunately, Google has listened to users' frustrations. After extensive beta testing, Google Messages has introduced a highly useful feature for group chats: Mentions.

      How do ‘@’ Mentions operate?

      As the name implies, this feature allows you to tag someone in an RCS-enabled group chat by using the ‘@’ symbol. When you tag someone in the group, they will receive a notification, even if they have muted the chat.

      No longer will you receive a “sorry, missed that” response from the person your message was intended for. You can also mention several people in a single message. Additionally, Google allows you to edit the saved name of the recipient in real-time directly from the message text field.

      Moreover, along with Mentions, Google Messages has introduced a new Trash folder that alleviates the issue of accidentally deleting an entire conversation with a single tap. This Trash folder replaces the immediate Delete action with the more familiar “Move to Trash” option.

      It also includes a quick Undo feature, enabling you to restore any mistakenly deleted messages. Messages will remain in the Trash for 30 days before they are permanently deleted. However, on Android Go devices, this time frame is shortened to seven days to conserve storage.

      You can find the Trash folder under Archive in the top-right profile menu, and it offers a one-tap restore option to bring conversations back to your inbox with full history. There’s also a permanent delete option if you wish to erase them entirely.

      Despite the announcement, it seems these features may not yet be available to all users, so if you can’t access them, your group chat struggles will have to wait a bit longer.

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