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Google Messages now lets you delete a sent text message.
A deleted message disappears for the other person immediately.
The feature is available now for almost all Android users.
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Android users finally have an undo option.
A long-awaited feature that lets you delete a sent text message is widely rolling out to most Android devices -- provided you use Google Messages as your texting platform.
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The option was first spotted by Android Authority, which also saw signs of the feature as early as February. Google has been slowly rolling out the ability to delete a message for some time, but it's now showing up for most users. The ability to delete a message from your screen has existed for a while, but now you can delete it for everyone involved.
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