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TL;DR Google Messages is working on a long-requested feature that addresses one of the app’s most glaring limitations.
The feature would let users handle multiple messages and images in a way that’s currently not possible.
Google is also testing a refreshed interface to support the new functionality, though it’s not yet available publicly.
Google Messages is constantly evolving, but despite being one of the best RCS messaging apps available, it still lacks some basic features that rival platforms like WhatsApp have offered for years. Now, it looks like Google is finally addressing one of those long-standing omissions with a feature so basic that it’s surprising it wasn’t included from the start.
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As it stands today, Google Messages does not allow users to forward multiple messages or images. Users have been asking for this feature for years, and it looks like Google is finally paying attention to the little things.
Right now, if you select multiple images to forward, you only get options to delete or download them. You have to select images one at a time if you want to forward them. The same goes for texts. You have to forward them one at a time because the app doesn’t even let you select multiple texts at a time to forward them together.
Thankfully, Google could finally get rid of this limitation with new forwarding options for multiple texts and images.
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