What you’ll want to know
- Google is rolling out a background wallpaper for RCS chats in Messages.
- The background — which showcases overlapping circles and bubbles, and makes use of Dynamic Shade — is supposed to tell apart RCS conversations from SMS/MMS messages on the app.
- The visible replace follows different efforts Google has made to distinguish RCS chats on the app, such a badge that identifies RCS-supported conversations.
Google Messages has already been testing some new methods to make it simpler to see which of your conversations are utilizing RCS — and now, the search big appears to be introducing an much more outstanding technique to establish your RCS chats on its Messages app.
First reported by the oldsters at 9to5Google, the corporate is engaged on a brand new background wallpaper on Google Messages for RCS chats, designed to set them other than the usual SMS/MMS conversations that populate the texting platform.
The attention-catching new wallpaper distinguishes RCS messages by showcasing overlapping circles and bubbles, which make the most of Dynamic Shade to take care of a lovely look. The visible differentiator notably makes the message bubbles and compose discipline stand out. It’s additionally famous that the design would prominently stand out with a lightweight theme, however it might seem extra refined and fewer noticeable in darkish mode.
Based mostly on the photographs seen and shared by 9to5Google, it seems to be like the identical sample is getting used at each the testing and implementation phases. This wouldn’t be the primary time we’ve seen this customization seem, as these similar wallpaper designs had been revealed in a earlier deep dive into the app. Nonetheless, it stands to motive that Google would ultimately present a wide range of totally different designs or generate them dynamically to create a personalised expertise.
In distinction, WhatsApp supplies a “wallpaper” characteristic during which customers can choose a photograph from their library or select between stable and gradient colours. Sign equally adopted this characteristic, so Google Messages is basically catching as much as different messaging apps.
9to5 signifies that the wallpapers are rolling out, though it isn’t clear how broadly the choice is showing. To date, we have now but to see it present up on our gadgets, however Google already has loads on the best way for the Messages app.
It’s additionally price noting that the brand new background wallpaper is separate from one other characteristic that Google Messages is introducing that enables customers to customise bubbles from 9 totally different colours as a technique to distinguish totally different chats. Google has but to launch the replace, which was introduced a number of weeks in the past alongside different expressive options.
That being stated, the background wallpaper follows different efforts Google has made to distinguish RCS chats on Messages, together with a badge that identifies RCS-supported conversations in your inbox.
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