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 ...
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 ...
AOL

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 ...
USA Today

Samsung replaces Messages app with Google's. What does this mean?

Samsung is discontinuing its messaging app and transitioning to Google Messages by the summer. In an End of Service Announcement shared the week of March 30, Samsung said it will discontinue its ...

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 ...
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Does Keeping Old Text Messages Slow Down Your Android Phone?

A few years ago, we could only send plain text messages with 160 characters. There was no option to include any media or attachments, which kept the messages close to 140 bytes. But the Messages app ...