Google Messages is finally getting group chat icon customization and RCS tags for contacts
The messaging app will also let you snooze chat notifications soon.
- Google has finally announced that custom icon support for RCS group chats will soon be available in Google Messages.
- The company has also confirmed that Google Messages will soon allow users to snooze chats.
- In addition, the messaging app will clearly label contacts with RCS enabled.
Although Google has been working on adding custom icon support to RCS group chats in Google Messages for quite some time, the feature has yet to reach users. We first spotted references to the feature in a teardown late last year and gave you an early look at it this February. Last month, Google Messages started testing custom icon support in RCS group chats with a few users. Now, Google has confirmed that the feature will soon reach all users.
Google announced a couple of new Android ecosystem updates alongside the Android 16 stable release today. These include a few upcoming changes for Google Messages, including custom icon support in RCS group chats. The feature will allow users to change the icon for existing RCS group chats and give them the option to choose a custom icon when setting up a new group chat.
