It seems to be like Google is engaged on an enhancing characteristic for Google Messages that can allow you to alter RCS texts after they’ve been despatched. That is based mostly on 4 strings of code discovered by TheSpAndroid within the newest Google Messages Beta that reference enhancing.

These are:

• bugle.enable_edit_ui
• bugle.load_edit_history
• bugle.process_outgoing_edits
• bugle.process_incoming_edits

We will’t see what this characteristic may seem like in apply but, however the strings recommend that the app will have the ability to ship and obtain edits to messages, and also will present you the historical past of an edited message – so you may see what was despatched earlier than and after it was edited.

We additionally don’t know the way enhancing itself will work. Some providers solely allow you to edit a message a set variety of occasions, whereas others provide you with a time restrict inside which to change the message, and a few haven’t any restrictions.

Regardless of how Google Messages enhancing shapes out, this software can be a giant get for the app – particularly for folks like me, who consistently ship texts riddled with spelling errors. That’s, if it ever really launches – as with all leaks, there’s no assure it can occur.

One other win for RCS?

This improve would comply with a number of huge updates for the messaging app which have rolled out this yr, together with end-to-end encryption and a visible overhaul. 

Sadly, there’s no indication of when this Google Messages characteristic will launch, so we is likely to be ready some time, or it may arrive very quickly. There’s additionally no assure that enhancing will ever come to Google Messages till an official announcement is made – that stated, with Google making an attempt to make its messaging service the popular choose over the likes of WhatsApp and others (with a few of these apps already providing message enhancing) it appears probably that including message enhancing is a matter of when and never if.

It’s additionally but to be seen if this characteristic can be baked into the RCS customary, or can be a characteristic of Google Messages particularly. If it’s the previous, then this enhancing software would additionally come to iMessage and iPhones when Apple lastly adopts RCS subsequent yr; if it’s the latter, Google may find yourself creating its personal two-tiered system just like the one it has lengthy accused Apple of making with its inexperienced/blue bubble messaging – with Android RCS customers getting a superior expertise.

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