Sharing your live location serves a similar goal, but if you only want to tell someone when you arrive at your destination, the second location data is overkill. These two characteristics can and should actually co-exist.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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More new features are coming\u2026eventually<\/h2>\n
The next version of the RCS standard, version 4.0, was finalized just a few weeks ago. RCS 4.0 supports some new features, including built-in video calling, higher quality media, and even text formatting options. (At the end<\/em>).<\/em> It’s up to Google to implement those features, but we have no reason to think it won’t happen.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
But as important an update as RCS 4.0 is, it only ticks one of my boxes here. Other features \u2013 locked chats, chat classification and automatic check-in \u2013 are not included. However, Google could implement all of these itself to make Messages a more modern, more competitive messaging platform. None of them require support outside of messages. Disappearing messages may be a benefit for chats where everyone is sending messages from the Google Messages app, but it’s better than not having the feature.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Given the pace of development of Google Messages over the past few years, I would be surprised if we didn’t see some of these alternatives emerge in the coming months and years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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