Google Messages Will Now Let You Delete Messages for Everyone
Not so long ago, sending a message was final. It didn’t matter that you had an embarrassing strike fault, or if you sent a message to the bad person: once you have exploited this “send” button, you have been locked up, and who this message was sent would have as long as they wanted.
These days, however, we have technology to save ourselves from this discomfort. Many cat applications now have options to recover a message after sending it, whether by modifying the message to correct an error, or the possibility of deleting a message from everyone in the cat. This does not guarantee that the people who have received the message have not seen it, but it deletes this message from the view. If they haven’t caught it, they will never.
Many chat applications have this deletion option today, from WhatsApp to Imessage. But a notable exception was Google messages. If you send a message that you don’t want to send, you can modify it for up to 15 minutes, but you cannot undo it. Fortunately, it starts to change. 9TO5GOOGLE initially identified the possibility of deleting everyone’s messages in February. Now, as Android Authority notes, it seems to be deployed to all users of Google Messages.
To be specific, RCS, the messaging protocol that Google was now messed up by default, has this option from the “Universal Profile 2.7” update from last July, which allowed users to “modify, recall and delete [messages] that they sent earlier for themselves and the recipient of the message. “However, it is only since February that Google has been working on the functionality within the application.
How to “delete everyone” works in Google messages
When the functionality strikes your Google Messages application, you will now have two options when you delete a message. You will have the option “delete for me”, which behaves in the same way as the deletion of a message has always: it will delete on your side, but not for someone else. However, there is also now “deleting for everyone”, which will delete the message for all users performing a compatible version of Google Messages.
What do you think so far?
It’s the key here. While the message will be deleted from users who have an update and compatible version of Google Messages, it won’t be removed from the old versions of the application. It is the Achilles heel of functionality, and it applies to most of the cat applications that offer it: you do not Really Know if the message has been deleted, unless you are certain parts involved executed from an up -to -date version of Google Messages.
However, finally, most users of Google Active messages will run a version of the application with the functionality. Soon, you can rest easily, knowing that a wrong message is not the end of the world – as long as you delete it in time.
