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It looks as though Google Messages is getting real-time location sharing very soon, and there's a tweak to group chats too.

Once real-time location sharing is active in Google Messages, a persistent banner appears at the top of the chat, clearly indicating that live location sharing is on and showing how much time is left.

Google Messages shows check marks and other symbols on your texts to hint at what's happening behind the scenes. Here's what ...

Google Messages may soon let users share their live location for set or custom durations, with clear on-screen indicators showing when sharing is active. The post Google Messages may finally get live ...

And, as is also often the case with Android, you don’t have to wait to give yourself a similar set of superpowers. With a ...

RCS (“Chat features”) in Google Messages can be great when it works: typing indicators, better group chats, higher-quality media, and Wi‑Fi messaging in some cases. When it doesn’t work, the symptoms ...

Apple added RCS to the iPhone, but crucially, the current implementation lacks end-to-end encryption. That's changing in the latest beta.

Google and Apple today announced that testing of encrypted RCS messaging between Android and iPhone is now underway.