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Google Messages, a popular messaging app that lets you send and receive images, videos and text messages might soon be getting a new WhatsApp-like ‘Edit’ feature. According to code spotted by TheSPAndroid in a beta version of the app, the app may soon let users edit sent messages.
It looks like the tech giant recently added four new flags to the app labelled ‘bugle.enable_edit_ui’, ‘bugle.load_edit_history’, ‘bugle.process_outgoing_edits’ and ‘bugle.process_incoming_edits’, but they seem to be placeholders since enabling them at the moment reportedly doesn’t do anything.
While message editing is not a part of the RCS standard by default, the Mountain View-based tech giant has previously added some features like end-to-end encryption in the past, so it won’t come as a surprise if Google lets you edit messages sent in the future. Currently, the ability to edit sent messages seems to be a work in progress and there is no information on when it will be available.
Moreover, it is still unclear if messages sent using Google Messages will have a time limit, as is the case with both iMessage and WhatsApp, which let you edit messages two minutes and fifteen minutes after you hit the send button.
Also, it is still not known if the receiver will be able to see edit history. Both iMessage and WhatsApp also let you delete sent messages, but there is no indication that Google is working on a similar feature.
In the last few months, Google Messages introduced several new features like Photomoji, which lets you transform any image into stickers and reaction emojis. The tech giant was also reportedly working on bringing satellite-based text messaging to its in-house app using Garmin’s emergency SOS via satellite service.
