- Samsung quietly announced last month that its Messages app is adding the ability to edit sent messages as well as auto-delete OTP codes.
- In addition, the Samsung Messages app no longer redirects users to Google Messages and once again supports RCS.
- These changes are interesting because Samsung told us in a statement that it was sunsetting its Messages app.
Since 2021, most Samsung phones have shipped with two text messaging apps: Samsung Messages and Google Messages. The Samsung Galaxy S25 series, though, marks the first time that Samsung Messages is no longer preinstalled on a Samsung phone, signaling a major shift in Samsung’s app strategy. The company told us in a statement that it would be sunsetting Samsung Messages, which would seem to indicate that the app’s development had ceased. However, despite those claims, we recently found that Samsung is continuing to ship updates to its Messages app, with the latest update quietly released alongside the Galaxy S25 launch.
In case you missed the news, the Samsung Messages app can still be installed on the Galaxy S25 if you download it from the Samsung Galaxy Store. Despite Samsung’s statement that it had “opted to migrate all services to Google Messages,” users noticed last week that RCS support remained functional in the app. This strongly suggested that Samsung Messages wasn’t being discontinued, especially since the app previously tried to push users towards using Google Messages instead. Samsung could have easily disabled RCS support to force users onto Google Messages, had it truly intended to discontinue the app.