Latest Samsung Messages news

Samsung is now trying to replace Messages on older Galaxy phones

New Galaxy phones in the USA no longer ship with the Samsung Messaging app pre-installed. All new Galaxy phones sold Stateside favor Google Messages over the 1st-party Samsung app. We've known this for a couple of months. However, it now looks like the Korean tech giant's efforts to replace its messaging app with Google's are […]

By Mihai Matei
3 months ago

Samsung is dropping its own Messages app for the greater good

A few days ago, it was revealed that phones running One UI 6.1.1 out of the box don't come with Samsung Messages pre-installed in some countries. After some questions were raised about that move, Samsung revealed why it dropped its stock messaging app in favor of Google Messages. Samsung decided to stop pre-installing Samsung Messages […]

By Asif Iqbal Shaik
4 months ago

Samsung Messages no longer comes pre-installed on Galaxy phones in USA

Samsung has been shipping its Galaxy phones and tablets with its in-house Messages app for years, but the company has stopped doing that recently in some markets. The Samsung Messages app no longer comes pre-installed on the company's new smartphones, at least in the USA. Samsung Messages not pre-installed on Galaxy Z Flip 6 and […]

By Asif Iqbal Shaik
4 months ago

Samsung Messages is crashing and it is Google’s fault

Is the Samsung Messages app on your Galaxy smartphone or tablet crashing lately as soon as you try to open a conversation in it? Well, you aren’t alone. Many people have been facing this issue for a couple of days now. Fortunately, Samsung is aware of the problem. It says that the culprit behind the […]

By Abid Iqbal Shaik
6 months ago

New update to Samsung Messages brings UI improvements, bug fixes

Samsung has released a new version of the Samsung Messages app for Galaxy smartphones and tablets (version 15.2.00.5). According to Samsung, the new version of Samsung Messages brings improvements to the user interface. While we have not noticed any change in the app’s UI yet, we will keep digging to see if there is anything […]

By Abid Iqbal Shaik
7 months ago

Google Messages copies useful feature from Samsung Messages

In the current stable version of Google Messages, when you capture an image from within the app to send it in an RCS chat, a small preview of the picture pops up in the compose box. You can tap on the image to see it in fullscreen. Well, Google has started testing a significant change […]

By Abid Iqbal Shaik
8 months ago

Why I finally switched from Samsung Messages to Google Messages

Samsung Messages used to be the default SMS app on Galaxy smartphones and tablets until 2021. With the Galaxy S21 lineup and One UI 3.1, Samsung started pushing Google Messages as the default SMS app while continuing to have its own app installed, and that's been the case on every new phone launched since then. […]

By Abhijeet Mishra
1 year ago

In its simplicity, Samsung Messages is the superior SMS app

Google might be paying Samsung a lot of money to push the Google Messages app as the default option on Galaxy devices, just like it did for Chrome and Search. But whether or not it does matters not. For many Galaxy users, the fact is that Samsung Messages is the superior solution. Why? The keyword […]

By Mihai Matei
1 year ago

Samsung Messages and Wallet apps were marked as harmful by Google

Google has integrated several security measures into Android, and one of those is the Play Protect service. It warns users of harmful apps and games if it senses that they can snoop on personal data, such as call logs, messages, or pictures. Recently, Google falsely flagged two Samsung apps as potentially harmful and notified some […]

By Asif Iqbal Shaik
1 year ago

Samsung explains how to fix the recent Messages ‘harmful app’ error

Some Galaxy device users closed the week with a Samsung Messages error preventing them from using the app. The error generated a device security pop-up claiming that Samsung Messages is harmful. As it turns out, a temporary failure of Google's servers was causing the error. It has since been addressed, but the issue may linger […]

By Mihai Matei
1 year ago

Samsung Messages gets Pay integration, UI tweaks and fixes

Samsung has just released a new update for its default Messages app in One UI. Actually, the company released not one but three updates on the same day, and they all share one changelog, which, for now, appears to exist only in the company's native language. Oddly enough, Samsung rolled out Messages versions 14.1.32.21, 14.1.35.5, […]

By Mihai Matei
2 years ago

As Vodafone shuts down RCS in the UK, Samsung Messages to get RCS support soon

Vodafone has announced that it is pulling the plug on its own RCS messaging support in the UK. An alert is already going out to the customers that the RCS messaging support will shut down between March 15 and March 31, 2023. According to some users, a message delivered by Vodafone tells the customers that the […]

By Sagar Naresh
2 years ago

Samsung One UI tip: Create conversation categories in Messages app

Keeping track of message lists in the internet age can be a burden. And although online messaging platforms like WhatsApp offer tools for easy group and conversation management, SMS apps usually lack that sort of social layering and complexity. But did you know that Samsung's SMS Messages app in One UI allows users to group […]

By Mihai Matei
2 years ago

The new Google Messages feature Samsung Messages should copy right away

Google Messages is getting an excellent new feature to help users declutter their SMS inbox, one that we think Samsung should copy for its own Messages app as soon as possible. Google has officially announced some new Google Messages functionality for users in India, and one of those involves the option to automatically delete one-time […]

By Abhijeet Mishra
3 years ago

Google Messages getting a basic feature that’s already there on Samsung Messages

That feature is the ability to pin message threads and conversations of choice to the top of the list for quicker access later.

By Abhijeet Mishra
4 years ago

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