Google adds contact photos to conversation threads in messages

Google has added a contact’s profile picture to the highest of conversations in messages for Android, following bigger modifications to “RCS” branding and skim receipt icons in current weeks.

Messages have at all times allowed customers to open Google Contacts by tapping an individual’s title in the app bar — the corporate is now emphasising that shortcut by displaying their profile photos as nicely, in accordance to 9to5Google.

It is identical picture that seems in the principle record of conversations when tapping on the area in group conversations opens that element web page.

This design is in line with different apps, with Facebook Messenger and Telegram displaying avatars in the identical left place, whigrouple iMessage shows it in the centre, the report stated.

Moreover, the magnifying glass icon has been eliminated as a part of this variation, and “Search” has been added to the overflow menu.

In January, Google rolled out end-to-end encryption in group chatsfor messages app customers enrolled in the beta programme.

With this characteristic, one-on-one texts despatched utilizing messages by Googlemight be encrypted so they’re non-public and safe and may solely be seen by the sender and recipient.

The Google messages app already consists of end-to-end encryption when messaging somebody who additionally has the RCS (Rich Communication Services) chat options enabled, nonetheless, this has to date been restricted to messages between two events and never group chats.

(With inputs from IANS)