Goodbye Samsung Messages!

[Robin621k]

Starting with the release of the Fold 6 series, Samsung Messages will no longer be pre-installed on future Samsung devices. Google Messages will be the only messaging app on phones in the US. Google is pushing this especially with the implementation of RCS compatibility on Iphones come September. RCS will only work from Google Messages to IMessage. Google owns Android, their platform, their rules. 

Samsung Messages will still be available for download in the Galaxy Store, stripped of any real meaningful features.

Not only will Google Messages be the sole messaging app, RSC will be turned on by default. If you wish to have RCS chat features it will ONLY be available in Google's product.

I will bet that when the next update rolls out, all those that still have enhanced features in the Samsung Messages it will be gone. Samsung Messages will now only be SMS/MMS.

This is the future going forward with messaging in the US, you either jump on board with Google Messages or you can stay with Samsung Messages with no enhanced features.

https://9to5google.com/2024/07/20/samsung-google-messages-no-longer-pre-installing/

[Laybal]

Good! Google messages way better anyways.

[Rayzer]

I always liked that you could expand the messages panel to take up the entire screen on Samsung Messages. Hopefully, they have incorporated that into Google Messages since the last time I used it.

[Robin621k]

They have, just push up to get rid of the top area

[ChaosSaber]

I switched back to Google Messages and deleted Samsung Messages

[Robin621k]

There is nothing left in Samsung Messages that makes it compelling anymore.

There are a couple of things I want added to Google Messages, categories, and selective text copy and paste. I hate not being able to just copy a number or address!

Theming a message app is not a thing with me, I could care less what it looks like.

[ChaosSaber]

I used Samsung because you could add/edit quick responses on the watch, but figured it was time to move on

[ChaosSaber]

I don't care about theming either and I am learning to just talk to my watch instead of using quick responses, only issue I have with Google is when I reply to a text, it puts what I send in my notifications on the watch, I have to clear it from there

[patriciostarr]

Now that i recall my s24 didn't come with samsung messages