The Samsung Galaxy S25 was notable for being a boring cellphone in numerous methods, however there have been just a few notcable adjustments. It was the primary Samsung S-series cellphone to come back with out the Samsung Messages app. In a weird transfer, although, Samsung is including new options to the app it supposedly killed off.
Samsung just lately flipped again on help for RCS on its Messages app, which briefly supported RCS earlier than changing into SMS-only once more—RCS messages have been to be dealt with by the Google Messages app. Now, a brand new replace was quietly rolled out which truly brings extra RCS options that weren’t current in even the unique implementation of RCS on the app.
This replace sees the introduction of a brand new message-editing function. It permits customers operating One UI 7 on Galaxy units to edit messages despatched to different appropriate Galaxy units. You’ll be able to edit a message as much as thrice inside quarter-hour of sending it by long-pressing the message, choosing “edit,” making adjustments, and resending. Edited messages are clearly marked, and an edit historical past is on the market.
The RCS Common Profile 2.7 commonplace contains provisions for message modifying, a functionality absent within the older SMS commonplace. Google Messages has supported it for some time, so Samsung is simply conforming to the newer capabilities on its app. One other addition contains the flexibility to auto-delete OTP codes after 24 hours. Lots of people, myself included, have a wasteland of previous OTP codes on our Messages app, and this function can be extraordinarily useful to chop down on that.
Do not get me unsuitable. I am all for Samsung creating its personal Messages app and making it higher. I do not suppose Google ought to have a monopoly on messaging on Android telephones, and if the excuse is RCS, technically anybody can add RCS to their messaging app. However that is weird for just a few causes. Not solely did Samsung cease delivery this app on its flagships just a few months in the past (although you’ll be able to nonetheless seize it from the Galaxy Retailer), nevertheless it has not been the default app for messages on Samsung flagship telephones for a minimum of just a few years. Samsung Messages was there, nevertheless it was a shell of itself, and the first-choice Messages app was Google’s.
The partnership even went a full step forward with Google making a “One UI-esque” unique theme for the Google Messages app that solely confirmed up on Samsung telephones. This was truly added a whopping four years ago. The writing was on the wall for an extended, very long time, and Samsung itself confirmed its demise final yr. We at How-To Geek additionally thought it was useless, and we even made a tutorial to migrate from one app to another. And as a enjoyable reality, Samsung itself reconfirmed this simply lower than a month in the past.
To not solely re-support the app but additionally add brand-new options to it, after telling everybody a number of occasions that it was being retired and directing customers out of it, is actually curious. Possibly Samsung would not plan to kill off the app in some markets (it would select to maintain it alive in South Korea, for instance), or it would simply have backtracked on its determination and can start supporting it once more for everybody.
The app is, proper now, nonetheless out there solely on the Galaxy Retailer, and official steerage by Samsung directing customers to modify to Google Messages remains to be round. So they may haven’t taken a course on this situation simply but. We simply know that the updates exist and are stay regardless of what Samsung has mentioned in regards to the app prior to now, which is the conflicting reality on the desk proper now.