Discussion - First iMessage, now Google Messages finally gets one of the most useful messaging tricks

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TuGa121
TuGa121
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• 4h ago
"First iMessage, now Google Messages finally gets one of the most useful messaging tricks"


It's funny how these things always follow the same pattern: iMessage gets the feature first, and then Google Messages finally catches up years later. Better late than never, I suppose!

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RoryBreaker
RoryBreaker
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• 4h ago

Still hoping that 3rd party support finally comes. I haven't moved to RCS simply because I can't customize Google Messages at all. I like features I currently have like delayed send & signature.

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onebadn8
onebadn8
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• 2h ago

I just use circle to search function on Pixel which allows you to select any text on the screen, in just about any app.

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Bruce_Wayne
Bruce_Wayne
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• 44m ago
↵TuGa121 said: "First iMessage, now Google Messages finally gets one of the most useful messaging tricks"


It's funny how these things always follow the same pattern: iMessage gets the feature first, and then Google Messages finally catches up years later. Better late than never, I suppose!

Sort of like how Apple FINALLY got widgets after Android has had them for decades?

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TuGa121
TuGa121
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• 38m ago
↵Bruce_Wayne said:

Sort of like how Apple FINALLY got widgets after Android has had them for decades?

I'm glad you brought that up. Are you referring to the half-baked Google widgets that Google essentially abandoned, only bothering to revive and overhaul them once Apple released their own polished versions?

Yes, that is exactly what happened. Google heavily revived and overhauled its own widgets after Apple introduced its redesigned, highly polished widgets in iOS 14 back in 2020.

While Android technically pioneered home screen widgets all the way back in 2008, Google had largely neglected them for years. They were frequently inconsistent, unpolished, and ignored by developers. When Apple introduced uniform, highly aesthetic, and carefully structured widgets to the iPhone, it triggered a massive cultural trend of home screen customization.

Once again FACTS are FACTS.

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nortoja4566
nortoja4566
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• 21m agoedited
↵TuGa121 said: "First iMessage, now Google Messages finally gets one of the most useful messaging tricks"


It's funny how these things always follow the same pattern: iMessage gets the feature first, and then Google Messages finally catches up years later. Better late than never, I suppose!

iMessage has it's strengths for sure, but it's all moot thanks to that crappy keyboard experience on IOS...took Apple six months to patch the missed keystrokes and ghost letters bug..drove me nuts when typing on my 17pm. Better late than never I suppose.

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Charlie2k
Charlie2k
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• 12m ago

This might have been the weirdest article I have ever read. It is already way more advanced and simple to use on Android.


I'm starting to believe you write these factually wrong articles on purpose.


On Android - in any app - you just mark the text you want and press Copy. If you want to edit what you copied, in case you copied to much (whole message etc) just press Edit. Done.


This way you can also copy multiple things simultaneously...from multiple messages and so on. And have them all easily accessable - simultaneously.


On iOS or iMessage? Nope, you cannot do it. It just provides the most basic copy/paste-functions.



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