Live
- World Quality Day: Hindustan Zinc Reaffirms Commitment to Superior Product Quality & Innovation
- Samsung TV Plus Announces the Launch of Four New FAST Channels From Viacom18 Exclusively on Samsung Smart TVs
- Arun Pandey 3.0 set to revolutionise lottery industry with Great Goa Games (GGG)
- How Organisations Can Support Mobile Workforces with Diabetes - From Prevention to Management
- Google Rolls Out Real-Time Spam Detection Feature for Pixel Users
- Marriott international and Samhi hotels announce strategic expansion, sign agreement to open three more properties in india
- Telangana Group-4 Results Declared: 8,084 Candidates Selected for 8,180 Posts
- 2024 Is Shaping Up to Be the Smallest Black Friday Ever: GoDaddy Study
- LG LAUNCHES NEW XBOOM SERIES, WITH POWERFUL SOUND WITH PORTABILITY AND STYLE
- KLH Bachupally's AI and ML Expo Hosts a Fusion of Student Innovation and Industry Expertise
Google Messages to get Profiles feature; Users can add names and images
Google Messages could soon add a new feature that allows users to set a screen name and add a photo to their profiles. This will allow for greater user customization, something Google has been looking for lately.
Google Messages has been receiving regular updates lately; some are game-changers. Last month, a new feature was reported to block access to screen sharing from any third-party app so no one else can see your messages. This time, the messaging platform powered by Rich Communication Services (RCS) offers a quality-of-life improvement that will give users more personalization and control over how they are seen when they send a message. Google Messages finally gets profiles.
9to5Google decompiled the latest version of Google Messages from the Play Store and found something exciting hidden within its codes. Chains display a new Profile tab and a profile settings section. There's another line of code for Profile Sharing, which could work like contact sharing. One part of the string says, "Choose your profile name and picture so people can recognize you", where users will likely be able to add a name and photo to their profile.
Google messages to get profiles
Earlier this year, a Reddit post on the r/UniversalProfile subreddit (a forum for people who prefer RCS) showed what this profile page could look like after some people started seeing this configuration option on their Android devices. The description of the chain code matches what we see in the shared image. Additionally, there are options for visibility when your profile is shared, and you receive notifications about profile updates from your contacts.
We are still determining whether Profiles is an RCS or a Google Messages-specific feature. If it is based on RCS, it would be available to all devices running RCS, whether they use Google Messages or not. But there is no way to confirm this.
We must note that even though this feature has been seen in the APK codes, it still needs to be rolled out or will appear soon. Sometimes, developers scrap a feature mid-stream and don't remove lines of code, which then make it into the published version. To know if Profiles will come to the application, we must wait for an official confirmation from Google.
