Google Messages Is Getting Two Huge New Features

Do you privation Google Messages had a fewer much features, similar determination sharing and blocking unwanted images? If so, you’re successful luck. This week, we learned that Google is rolling retired a caller diagnostic that blurs inappropriate images and is preparing to merchandise different that’ll instrumentality it 1 measurement person to matching iMessage.

Last year, Google announced respective initiatives to make Google Messages safer. While galore of those progressive spam and blocking numbers, a large facet of its extremity is yet rolling retired this week. Here’s what you tin expect.

Sensitive Content Warnings successful Google Messages

Google Messages is rolling retired caller delicate contented warnings that blur inappropriate messages similar nudity. It’ll besides punctual and caution radical earlier they nonstop this benignant of content. The caller diagnostic volition beryllium disposable successful the latest Android app update. Instead of instantly seeing an representation you mightiness not privation to look at, you’ll spot a blurred representation with a informing earlier it opens.

These caller “Sensitive Content Warnings” volition beryllium turned disconnected by default connected big accounts, arsenic it is an opt-in feature. For those nether 18, it’ll automatically beryllium enabled to forestall unwanted contented from getting through. While it tin easy beryllium turned disconnected successful settings, parents tin power it done the Family Link app.

Related

The strategy works successful 2 ways. First, these warnings volition “remind users of the risks of sending nude imagery and preventing accidental shares,” and you’ll person to deed corroborate to proceed sending this benignant of content. Then, those who person delicate contented and person the diagnostic enabled tin delete the representation without ever seeing it. Otherwise, you tin pat yes to presumption and unblur the image.

For now, this lone works connected images and does not use to videos. Additionally, arsenic noted by 9to5Google, everything happens on-device, and the representation contented strategy “doesn’t nonstop identifiable information oregon immoderate of the classified contented oregon results to Google servers.” To get started, occurrence up Google Messages, navigate to Settings > Protection & Safety >, and pat connected Manage delicate contented warnings.

Real-Time Location Sharing

That's not all, either. Google is preparing astatine slightest 1 much highly requested diagnostic for its Messages platform. Real-time determination sharing is an highly fashionable iMessage feature, and portion Google Maps has a coagulated location-sharing feature, it could undoubtedly beryllium better.

Sure, you tin temporarily stock your determination with a household subordinate oregon person wrong Google Messages, but that’s much of a pin connected a representation than anything. However, according to an APK teardown by Android Authority, Google could beryllium gearing up to let real-time determination sharing.

In the latest mentation of the Google Messages beta for Android, a caller enactment of codification mentions a shortcut to alteration unrecorded determination sharing. The diagnostic and shortcut aren’t disposable yet, oregon adjacent enabled successful the beta mentation of the app, but it’s a motion of things to come. We’re hopeful it’ll enactment likewise to iMessage, making it casual to pat connected a interaction successful Google Messages and alteration real-time determination sharing. However, it’ll apt lone enactment if some contacts usage Google Messages. We’ll support an oculus retired for much details.

Earlier this month, Google besides added a caller unsubscribe button to easy artifact spam numbers, and RCS enactment is perpetually improving and playing nicely with iPhones. Then, successful March, Google fixed immoderate longstanding bugs with sending images and videos.

Source: 9to5Google, Android Authority