Tech Desk 
Jun 19, 2025
Google has officially announced a suite of new features for its “Messages” app, including the ability to snooze notifications and delete text messages for everyone in RCS chats.
Alphabet-owned tech giant revealed that these capabilities are now rolling out widely to stable users. As the names suggest, the former lets you snooze notifications for incoming messages.
However, those on older versions of the Google Messages app may still be able to see the deleted texts.
Google Messages get new features
The “Delete for everyone” option in Google Messages has been in development for a couple of months. It has now been made widely available in the Google Messages app.
Long pressing on a message and tapping the trash button now brings two options — Delete for everyone and Delete for me. The former removes it from both the sender and receiver's device.
However, it is limited to RCS chats and non-RCS messages cannot be deleted for all users. Further, messages may still be visible on devices running an older version of the Google Messages app.
On the other hand, Google has also launched the “Snooze notifications” feature on the Messages app. Long pressing on a conversation from the app's home page brings up a new window which displays the different time durations.
To note, users can select to snooze notifications for the conversation for one hour, eight hours, 24 hours, and Always.
As part of the Google Messages update for June 2025, the Alphabet-owned tech giant has also announced personalisation for RCS group chats where users can set a custom icon and unique name.
