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.
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.
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
As far as phones go it's getting limited not everyone uses the ones you mentioned I don't those some would call social media or simular to it but the posts is about phone texts options as they have been for many years
I have a family group on WhatsApp because Iphones doesn't currently support RCS for sending higher resolution photos and videos. It will in September only from Google to Apple. It's up to you to join the party or not.
If this ends up being accurate this is very disappointing. I was hoping they would add to have carrier independent RCS so if the carrier registration does not work it would just fall back to JIBE on its own. Would have been awsome.
