Good news! Google Messages will have a long awaited new feature for users to enjoy!
The recent announcement from Google comes after also rolling out a brand new icon and other new features last month.
More precisely, the blog post sharing the news with the public mentioned that Google Messages is bound to get an end-to-end encryption for group chats, ensuring that your conversations will be more secure.
As you may be aware, until now, Google Messages has only been offering end-to-end encryption for one-on-one chats so the announcement that this is going to extend to group chats as well, is very welcome!
Over the upcoming weeks, this feature will go live for those enrolled in the beta program first, before allowing for general access in the near future.
At this time, the massive company is yet to share the exact release date for all other Google Messages users however, but it’s most likely going to happen before the end of this year!
And this is not the only new feature! As it turns out, Google is also planning on updating the reactions feature, finally allowing for emoji reactions to RCS messages.
In fact, this feature has already been out on the beta channel since late last month but is expected to become available to the users of the stable channel in just a few days’ time as well.
And that’s not even all! Aside from all of these welcome updates for Google Messages, the company also just released Android 13 for Android TV!
It comes with new APIs that aid developers create great quality experiences for users regardless of device.
This includes improvements for the Audio Manager API that allow developers to do things like anticipating audio attribute support for the audio device as well as selecting the ideal format without the need to start playback.
Furthermore, users can also now change the default resolution as well as the refresh rate on supported HDMI source devices in order to provide users with a more reliable experience.
Other changes include HDMI state changes that have surfaced in the Media Session lifecycle.
This means that TV dongles and other HDMI source devices will be able to save on power as well as pause content.
Android 13 for Android TV even features new input controls and accessibility options.
More precisely, there is support for a number of keyboard layouts to the Input Device API and new audio descriptions API in Accessibility Manager, allowing developers to “query the new system-wide audio description preference setting” in order to provide audio descriptions automatically, depending on users’ preferences.