Officially, RCS is a big deal now with 1 billion users active on a monthly basis. The milestone was announced by Google today, and in order to commemorate the occasion, the Messages app will receive seven new features. The statement that this will “help your personality shine through” is given. On the other hand, they will not cause RCS bubbles on iOS to turn blue.
In the event that you have been living under a rock, RCS is a new standard that is supposed to replace the obsolete SMS and MMS, according to Google. However, these two technologies are still used as backups, so it is more accurate to say that they are being enhanced rather than replaced. To put it another way, it’s similar to iMessage, but it’s designed for Android phones.
In recent years, Google has been making a significant amount of effort to promote it, and it appears that this effort has not been in vain at all. We emphasize the word “significant.” A number of features, including typing indications, read receipts, threaded responses, improved group conversations, high-quality media sharing, and greater privacy, are included in RCS.
Let’s move on to the new features now, shall we?
1) Photomoji
Using the on-device version of Google AI, this feature enables you to transform a snapshot into a reaction, as the name suggests. After that, each of these creations is saved in an own tab for easy access in the event that you decide to reuse them. In addition, any photomoji that you send to your friends in group chats can be used by them as well.
2) Voice Moods
These are animated emoji that have been placed on top of a voice message in order to visually represent how you are feeling at that particular particular instant. The bitrate of voice messages as well as the sample rate have both been increased in order to achieve an improvement in the quality that is perceived.
3) Screen Effects
As you enter specific words, such as “it’s snowing” or “I love you,” for example, Screen Effects makes it possible for bright animations to take over the entire screen. Although there are more than fifteen of these, Google wants us to find them since they are concealed.
4) Custom Bubbles
I can assure you that you will never be able to take advantage of this feature on iMessage. You have the ability to determine the color of the bubbles and the background for each of your talks. Depending on your preferences, you have the ability to select a different color for each chat that you have on Facebook Messenger.
5) Reaction Effects
There is “more life into your conversations” because to Reaction Effects, according to Google. When you react with one of the ten most popular emoji, the reaction will animate over the message that you are reacting to. This feature is now available on the 10 most popular emoji.
6) Animated Emoji
These are exactly what they sound like: visual effects that be applied to particular emoji and only be activated when that particular emoji is sent. For instance, WhatsApp has something that is very close to this.
7) Profiles
These are now available in Google Messages at long last. Personalization options are available for both your profile name and photo, which will be shown alongside your phone number. This “addresses the problem of receiving messages from phone numbers not saved in your contacts,” according to the business, and it can be especially helpful in group conversations so that you are aware of who all of the members are.