An Android Authority teardown of the latest Google Messages beta has revealed a change to group chat icons in testing. We managed to activate the option to remove a group chat icon and restore the ...

Settings I should've changed on day one.

With the new Workspace icons fully rolled out, Google is now tweaking how Chat appears in the Android status bar to look less like Messages. The homescreen icons are pretty distinguished in terms of ...

Jay primarily writes news and deals posts for Android Police. Before joining AP, he spent the past several years yammering on about the crazy world of Android for various tech outlets. Besides ...

Google Messages has several settings worth checking. PSA: Gemini chats in Messages are not end-to-end encrypted. Also, small changes can make texting cleaner and less distracting. So, when I set up a ...

The blue chat bubble means RCS is on, but I'm still waiting on the lock icon that's supposed to follow it.