Googles Messages is improving over the months, benefiting from RCS technology to acquire new features. The next will add the ability to create encrypted groups of up to 100 people.
Gone are the days when Google Messages was just an archaic SMS application. With the RCS standard, new possibilities are offered to users. Soon, for example, it will be possible to create groups with 100 people.
This future update, spotted by the 9to5Google site, will allow to drastically increase the number of participants in an encrypted discussion. Google originally planned groups with a maximum of 21 members, but eventually this limit was raised to 100.
Google Messages is gradually transforming thanks to RCS
As a result, Google Messages is transformed into the ultimate messaging application over updates. The move from SMS to RCS allows for a lot of things, like easier sending of photos, videos, files, Gifs, dynamic text reactions, and the ability to create multi-party conversations. Moreover, the app is fully encrypted in order to protect the sweet words that you can send to your contacts.
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Messages is now a direct competitor of services such as WhatsApp, Signal or Telegram. It has a major advantage: it comes preinstalled on all Android smartphones and is designated as the default texting software. For now, the functionality for groups of 100 people is still in beta phase. If the Mountain View company is satisfied with the result, there is no doubt that we will see it land in the coming weeks in our phones. However, some users already have access to this new feature.
As a reminder, the democratization of RCS has been one of Google’s priorities in recent years. The more modern and smoother protocol has been used by Messages for quite some time now. For its part, Apple is still reluctant to take the plunge for security reasons, which does not fail to attract peaks from Google from time to time.
Source: 9to5Google