Samsung Is Retiring Its Messages App — What Galaxy Users Need To Know

Samsung is retiring Samsung Messages after 17 years, pushing Galaxy users to Google Messages as encrypted RCS texting expands ...
Android Authority

What is Google Messages and how to use it

Unless you’ve sought out an alternative, the default SMS app on your Android device is probably called Messages, with two blue speech bubbles overlapping on a white background. This is Google Messages ...
CNET

Samsung Messages Is Being Retired. Here's How to Move Everything Before July

Staying on Samsung Messages past July means losing access to your texts. Here's how to migrate before that happens.
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Samsung's Messages app is shutting down in 2026: Here's what you need to do

Samsung will discontinue its Messages app in July 2026 and require users to switch to Google Messages. After the shutdown, Samsung Messages will not send texts except for emergency contacts and ...
Fox News

Samsung Messages ending? What Android owners must know

You may be hearing that Samsung Messages is going away, and for many Android users, that's true. Samsung is quietly phasing out its Samsung Messages app and moving people to Google Messages as the ...

Google Messages' easiest pairing method is about to disappear

Google Messages is removing its convenient QR code setup option, forcing desktop web app users to switch to a Google account ...