In a surprising turn of events, Samsung has announced its intention to revive its native messaging app, Samsung Messages, after previously planning to sunset it in favor of Google Messages. The decision comes after Samsung removed Samsung Messages from the Play Store and stopped installing it on foldable phones. The company's initial rationale for the transition to Google Messages centered around promoting RCS (Rich Communication Services) adoption. However, Samsung now appears to acknowledge the limitations of relying solely on Google Messages for RCS and is encouraging users to utilize the RCS capabilities within Samsung Messages.
Samsung Messages is technically not dead. But Samsung has announced that it's going to sunset its native messaging app to encourage migration to Google Messages . The Korean giant has long been preparing for the transition and the eventual shutdown of the app. In 2021, it switched to Google Messages as the main messaging app on its phones. In mid-2024, the company stopped installing Samsung Messages on its foldable handsets. RCS support for the app was removed by.
On top of that, the app has also been removed from the Play Store. The company appears to be reconsidering its decision now.Samsung Messages supports RCS on the Galaxy S25. | Image Credit - SammyGurus This is an interesting development, considering that RCS was presented as one of the key reasons by Samsung for moving its users to Google Messages. And now, the company is encouraging users to turn on RCS in Samsung Messages for'Faster, richer, higher quality chat on Wi-Fi or data.'Samsung had previously said that individual apps supporting RCS were not enough to accelerate adoption as'the availability may be limited depending on which app the other party uses.' That's why, it made Google Messages the default texting app. It also didn't help that the RCS capabilities of Samsung's app were carrier-dependent.When you consider this, it makes it harder to understand why Samsung wanted to kill its messaging app. It appears to have realized that and for now, the app lives on.
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