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After I made the swap from my iPhone 15 Pro Max to a Galaxy S25 Ultra earlier this 12 months, one of many first issues I missed was the power to delete textual content messages that I would despatched. The flexibility to unsend messages through iMessage has been a godsend since Apple launched it. Whereas it has its limitations — you possibly can solely delete messages as much as two minutes after sending them — the “Undo Ship” characteristic works nicely. With out that characteristic, although, transferring to Google Messages felt like taking a step backwards in a few alternative ways.
Now, it seems to be like Google is lastly bringing that characteristic to Android by means of Google Messages, because it has been beta testing the power to delete despatched messages for everybody in a chat since early this 12 months. The change was initially spotted by Android Authority late final week, although it nonetheless seems to be within the strategy of rolling out to customers, because the Android telephones in my home have not truly acquired the replace but.
Some questions on limitations
There are nonetheless some questions on simply how lengthy the characteristic offers you to delete a message from a dialog, with Android Authority noting that it was in a position to delete a message as much as an hour after the message was initially despatched. That appears a bit extreme, personally, particularly since Apple’s Undo Ship solely helps deleting a message for 2 minutes.
It is also vital to notice that deleting a textual content doesn’t cease anybody else from seeing it earlier than the deletion goes by means of. Plus, if the person who you are texting with is utilizing a model of Google Messages that’s older, the message will not be deleted for them. That additionally signifies that utilizing some other messaging service exterior of Google Messages will seemingly yield the identical outcome, although I am unable to check that specific ache level as I have never acquired the replace.
After all, most individuals on Android are seemingly already utilizing Google Messages, regardless of its shortcomings. It is turn out to be the default messaging app on many Android phones, together with Samsung. Whereas the precise limitations of how and when you possibly can delete a message aren’t clear simply but, there is no doubt that having this potential will make many Android customers blissful.