Samsung is saying goodbye to its namesake texting app, at the very least for United States prospects.
Based on an end-of-service announcement revealed on the tech large’s U.S. assist web site, Samsung Messages will likely be discontinued in July. Impacted house owners of Samsung smartphones and different devices are being requested to modify to Google Messages within the meantime, “to keep up a constant messaging expertise on Android.”
All Samsung Galaxy phones run on Google’s Android working system. To change to Google Messages, Samsung’s web site provides customers directions to obtain the app from the Play Retailer, if not already on their telephone, and set it because the default. Some individuals might also obtain an in-app notification to information them by means of the method.
Samsung says switching to Google Messages will give customers entry to updates like the newest artificial intelligence options from Google’s Gemini—which incorporates an experimental function known as “Remix” to generate photos throughout conversations and AI-powered reply recommendations—and the power to share higher-quality pictures between Android and Apple iOS units by means of RCS-enabled messages.
Customers of older Android working techniques (courting again to Android 11 or older) is not going to be impacted by the top of Samsung Messages, the corporate famous. To verify what Android OS you’ve got on a Samsung system, open the settings app, click on on “software program data” and scroll to “Android model.”
In the meantime, house owners of Samsung’s newest Galaxy 26 lineup and different newer telephones can not obtain the Samsung Messages app from the Galaxy Retailer in the present day.
All units will not have the ability to obtain Samsung Messages after it’s formally discontinued in July, the corporate famous. Samsung mentioned customers can verify their app for the precise date for when service will go offline.
Samsung confirmed in an replace on its web site Tuesday that this end-of-service steerage solely applies to the U.S. market.
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