Google Messages for the web is improving: it is now possible to respond to a specific message to RCS chats, as if you were on your smartphone. What to find when several subjects fuse in the same conversation.
Instant discussions are sources of misunderstanding: you reply to a message from your interlocutor, but he thinks that you are replying to another message. This is why reply functions are present on almost all instant messaging applications: they allow you to quote or refer to the precise message when you reply. Google Messages also has this and this function is coming to the web.
Google Messages for the web takes advantage of direct replies
This is the English media 9to5Google who spotted this change on Google Messages. After the arrival of the seen on messages and send/receive status, it’s a new update coming.
Now, next to each message, an arrow to the left is available and allows you to reply. By clicking on it, the text field opens with the message written just above it. What to answer precisely to this message and not to another. For the moment, this does not seem to be available on Android tablets.
From now on, you can directly reply to RCS messages via any browser. Until now, you could only copy a message, delete it or react with one of seven different emoji. Where the mobile app offers all of Android’s emojis. Fortunately, we could always display direct responses to messages made on our smartphone or at our destination.
Google Messages on desktop: it’s getting better
All these possibilities are offered by the fact that Google Messages is a PWAsOr Progressive Web Appa ” progressive web app “. It is a web application that looks like a mobile application in every way, without many constraints.
Since 2018, therefore, Google Messages allows you to send SMS from your PC, if you have an Android smartphone. As the years go by, the web application looks more and more like its big sister on Android: display of messages, functionalities, etc.
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