About this app

Message anyone from anywhere with the reliability of texting and the richness of chat.

Meet Messages, official app for texting (SMS, MMS) and chat (RCS). Message anyone from anywhere with the reliability of texting and the richness of chat.
Stay in touch with friends and family, send group texts, and share your favorite pictures, GIFs, emoji, stickers, videos and audio messages.

Send texts, photos, videos, and more! Stay in touch with friends and family, send group texts, and share your favorite pictures, GIFs, emoji, stickers, videos and audio messages.

Chat features (RCS)
On supported carriers, you can send and receive messages over Wi-Fi or your data network, see when friends are typing or when they have read your message, share images and videos in high quality, and more.

Clean, intuitive, and comfortable design
Instant notifications, smart replies and a fresh new design make communicating faster and more fun. With dark mode, you can use Messages comfortably in low-light situations.

Easy sharing
Select or take pictures and videos directly from the app and share easily. You can even send audio messages to your contacts.

Richer conversations
Send audio messages, emoji, stickers, or your location.

Powerful search
Now you can find more of the content shared in your conversations: tap on the search icon and select a specific contact to see your messaging history with them and all the photos, videos, addresses or links you shared with each other.


Features
* Messages apps for texting (SMS, MMS) and chat (RCS)
* Send and receive messages
* Select or take pictures and videos directly from messaging apps
* Send audio messages, emoji, stickers, or your location
* Text Now has never been so great with countless emoji, GIF, sticker
* Group text messages, Groupme
* Private messaging
* Messages Lite - Private Text Messages, Secret SMS
* Blocking text messages with Key Messages
* Smart Messages for SMS, MMS and RCS
* Switch to social messenger
* Messenger Home SMS

New features

update new designer

App Permissions

Allows applications to access information about networks.
Allows an application to initiate a phone call without going through the Dialer user interface for the user to confirm the call.
Allows applications to open network sockets.
Allows an application to read the user's contacts data.
Allows an application to read SMS messages.
Allows read only access to phone state, including the phone number of the device, current cellular network information, the status of any ongoing calls, and a list of any PhoneAccounts registered on the device.
Allows an application to receive the ACTION_BOOT_COMPLETED that is broadcast after the system finishes booting.
Allows an application to monitor incoming MMS messages.
Allows an application to receive SMS messages.
Allows an application to send SMS messages.
Allows access to the vibrator.
Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.
Allows an application to write to external storage.
Allows an application to read from external storage.