The Google Messages app is finally getting ready to bring a feature that users have been waiting for years. With the arrival of RCS technology, the app has increasingly started resembling WhatsApp and other messaging platforms, and it now plans to offer a feature that users have frequently requested.
Android Authority discovered this new feature, showing that Google Messages is becoming more like WhatsApp. The privacy-focused innovation will allow users to hide some of their information from the people they message. Here are the details…
Google Messages Introduces Privacy-Focused Innovation!
The new feature emerging in Google Messages will enable users to enhance their privacy on the platform. Users will soon have the option to hide their profile pictures and usernames. You can check out a screenshot of the new feature below.
Users of Google Messages will be able to share their profile pictures with everyone, only with their contacts, or only with the people they are messaging. They will also have the option to choose for their profile pictures to be invisible to anyone.
The username will have the same options as the profile pictures. With these innovations, Google’s Messages app can become much more comprehensive, bringing it closer to social networking.
On another note, some developers suggest that the company won’t take long to launch the option for users to search by username.
What do you think about this new feature?
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