Chat your way safely and smartly.

With Google Messages, you can customize your experience, ensure private conversations, and enjoy the latest AI features.

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Highlights

Express yourself in every chat.

Strike a pose and hit send.

Add a fun personal touch to your chats by recording a 3-second animated video that you can share.

Ditch the default, and choose your colors.

Customize your experience with different colors, emojis and themes, and add extra effects to every conversation.

Snap and share your own customized emoji.

Quickly and easily turn your favorite images into emoji you can share within your chats.

Hello hi-res, Goodbye blur.

With RCS, you can send and receive high-res photos and videos. You’ll also know when friends have seen your message or when they’re typing a response.*

*In supported conversations when RCS chats are available and turned on.

Strike a pose and hit send.

Add a fun personal touch to your chats by recording a 3-second animated video that you can share.

Ditch the default, and choose your colors.

Customize your experience with different colors, emojis and themes, and add extra effects to every conversation.

Snap and share your own customized emoji.

Quickly and easily turn your favorite images into emoji you can share within your chats.

Hello hi-res, Goodbye blur.

With RCS, you can send and receive high-res photos and videos. You’ll also know when friends have seen your message or when they’re typing a response.*

*In supported conversations when RCS chats are available and turned on.

Features

Everything you need.
Built right in.

Privacy & security

Save your chats from spammers.

Keep your messages secure with high-quality privacy controls, spam protection, and RCS- enabled data encryption.

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AI in Messages

What you want to say, powered by Google AI.

Turn your fave photos into reactions, set the vibe of your chats, and more! Try them out.

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Connectivity

Keep the conversation going across your devices.

Switch from your phone to your tablet to your smart watch during the same conversation without any interruption.

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Customization

Text it like you talk it.

Message with your own personality and voice by creating emojis, picking chat colors, and making animated effects pop.

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Helpful

Text smarter, not harder.

Get suggested replies, helpful reminders and nudges, and enjoy automatic noise cancellation.

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Privacy & security

Save your chats from spammers.

Keep your messages secure with high-quality privacy controls, spam protection, and RCS- enabled data encryption.

An image of a person looking at their Android device, with a shield icon and a lock icon.

AI in Messages

What you want to say, powered by Google AI.

Turn your fave photos into reactions, set the vibe of your chats, and more! Try them out.

An image of two people laying next to each other, looking at an Android. A cat icon is in the bottom left, and two chat bubbles are on the right.

Connectivity

Keep the conversation going across your devices.

Switch from your phone to your tablet to your smart watch during the same conversation without any interruption.

An image of a person sitting in front of a computer.

Customization

Text it like you talk it.

Message with your own personality and voice by creating emojis, picking chat colors, and making animated effects pop.

An image of three people sitting outside, one of them is showing the others an Android screen. There are chat bubbles overlaid on the bottom left, and a heart emoji overlaid on the bottom right.

Helpful

Text smarter, not harder.

Get suggested replies, helpful reminders and nudges, and enjoy automatic noise cancellation.

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Keep what matters.

Keep your data, contacts and chats, and enjoy seamless texting with friends and family, regardless of their device.

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FAQs

Get the answers you need.

More questions? Check our Help Center.

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Customization

React BIGGER.

Bring your messages to life with vibrant animations that will transform your words into dazzling visual displays.

Currently in beta

How to Join the Beta: If you have the Google Messages app installed, find it on the Play Store & tap "Join beta" (Availability varies by region.)

Customization

Pick your own bubble colors.

Customize the color of the text bubble and background for every chat and give each conversation its own unique look.

Customization

Reactions all your own.

Infuse each message with a burst of visual effects, including animated emojis that appear around the bubbles.

Customization

Bring your voice texts to life.

When sending a voice text, you can also choose a visual effect to express your mood.

Photomoji

React in whole new ways.

Create a new reaction right within the chat window. Just pick an image from your camera roll.

Photomoji

From camera roll to custom emoji.

Just like magic, the subject of the picture is highlighted and automatically turned into a reaction.

Photomoji

Every chat deserves a custom reaction.

Make all of your chats even more you by creating as many personalized reactions as you want.

Privacy & security

Bounce the bots.

Google Messages automatically filters out spam and phishing messages, so you never even have to see them.

Privacy & security

Enjoy your privacy.

With RCS enabled, your chats are protected by end-to-end encryption. So you can share whatever you need to.

AI in Messages

The perfect text, every time.

Choosing from a range of styles, let Magic Compose turn your text into something totally fun and unexpected.

AI in Messages

Turn pics into perfect reactions.

Quickly and easily turn your favorite images into emoji you can share within your chats.

Connectivity

Chat across multiple devices.

Never miss a conversation with seamless integration across all your Android devices.

Connectivity

React dynamically.

Infuse each message with a burst of visual effects, including animated emoji that work across devices and OS.

Connectivity

Get the most out of your video calls.

When texting isn’t enough and things go from “ok” to “OMG.” you can download Google Meet for all of your video call needs.

Customization

Bring your voice texts to life.

When sending a voice text, you can also choose a visual effect to express your mood.

Customization

More you in every chat.

Customize the backgrounds and bubbles of your conversations, and give each contact a different theme.

Customization

Add gestures to every conversation.

React with a simple 👍, and watch as magic unfolds with an animated trio of hands dancing around the message.

Customization

React BIGGER.

Add more of you to every message with screen effects that pop up whenever you use specific keywords.

Currently in beta

How to Join the Beta: If you have the Google Messages app installed, find it on the Play Store & tap "Join beta" (Availability varies by region.)

Helpful

Silence the noise.

Voice notes now offer noise cancellation, filtering out distracting background sounds when you record a message.

Helpful

Never miss a message again.

These helpful reminders ensure you don't forget to respond to messages that need your attention.

Helpful

Say it, then send it.

No matter what you’re doing, Voice Transcription helps you communicate when you can’t type, or don't want to.

RCS

Share hi-res photos and videos.

With RCS, you can send your hi-res photos and videos to anyone you want.

RCS

Stop wondering and start knowing.

RCS lets you know when someone has read your message and when they’re typing a response.

RCS

React dynamically.

Infuse each message with a burst of visual effects, including animated emoji which appear around the bubbles.

RCS

Take control of your conversations.

With RCS, name group chats, add or remove people, exit any you’re in, and assign custom colors for everyone.

Selfie GIFs

Say cheese, and share your selfies with ease.

Just long press on the gallery icon, then put your best face forward and record your video. If you like what you see, share with your friends!

Currently in beta

How to Join the Beta: If you have the Google Messages app installed, find it on the Play Store & tap "Join beta" (Availability varies by region.)