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.
When I got my s24 ultra in January I think I went into my settings and search samsung messages from there and made it my default app and i disabled Google messages
Before Samsung ditches this app, they need to roll out an update that allows Google messages to work seamlessly with Samsung's phone and contacts apps. Even when Google Messages is your default app, using link to windows or your galaxy watch for Messages will use Samsung, not Google. And why doesn't Bixby play music from YT music?
Had to park out back and walk in, it's so crowded in here. 😁 Yea, if you download Google messenges and go into that , it's going to prompt you to pick one, Sam, or Google to be your default, just select Google, and your other messages will come over. You can switch back and forth between the two, the messages will still show in both of them.
