Samsung crowns Google Messages as its default messaging app within the US

Supply: Nicholas Sutrich/Android Central

Google Messages shouldn’t be the first messaging app from Google, by a longshot, nonetheless it’s the one which’s gaining in all probability essentially the most traction, and that’s largely to the implementation of RCS messaging. The good news is that starting with the Samsung Galaxy S22 sequence, Google Messages is the default messaging app inside the US. Alongside 9to5Google, we’ve confirmed that that’s the case on our Galaxy S22 overview samples.

Within the US, the complete finest Android smartphones are using Google Messages as a result of the default — moreover Samsung. Although Samsungs private service helps RCS, it was on the mercy of the US carriers to allow it to perform accurately. With ultimate 12 months’s Galaxy S21 lineup, Samsung set Google Messages because the default in Europe and totally different areas outside of the US and on the same time pre-installed its private Samsung Messages.

Utilizing RCS brings added security to cell messaging, nonetheless it moreover presents a bunch of choices like typing indicators, the pliability to ship greater info, study receipts, reactions, and additional.

As seen inside the images above, Google Messages seems the an identical on the Google Pixel 6 Professional and the Galaxy Z Fold 3. Nevertheless, wanting on the image of the Galaxy S22 Extremely, it’s pretty completely totally different with flavors of Samsung’s One UI 4. Whether or not this seen distinction will make its strategy to totally different Samsung models previous the S21 and S22 is unclear, nonetheless the sentiment stays the an identical that Google Messages turning into additional extensively accessed.

That has good implications for RCS, which has been in public discourse as of late on account of Apple’s lack of assist for the rising customary. That acknowledged, primary U.S. carriers have all launched Google Messages because the default on their newer Android telephones in a single different primary push for the service.