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Google flipped the switch to RCS messaging a while back, and messaging on Android has gotten so much better. One of the most popular messaging applications for Android is Google Messages. Not to be confused with Google Chat, Google Messages is the platform that people use for typical phone number-based communication. Well, Google Messages is bringing image captioning, another great benefit of having RCS technology.
RCS messaging brings a ton of benefits over the oldest SMS messaging. People using Google Messages have already seen some benefits of this including better security, larger file sharing, message reactions, and more. Later this year, Apple is going to finally enable RCS messaging for iPhones. However, Apple’s implementation will still be a fair bit behind Google’s.
Google Messages is finally bringing image captioning.
We’re all used to sharing images with our messages, and we sometimes want to add just a little bit more context to them. Maybe you want to send an image of a cat comfortably sleeping inside of a juice pitcher with a caption reading “my weekend plans”. Well, certain platforms like Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp allow you to add a caption directly onto an image posted. It means that the text and image will occupy one message bubble. This is actually a relatively new feature for WhatsApp.
However, in the case of Google Messages, this was not a possibility. When you would send an image with text, they will be sent as separate messages. However, according to a new report from @AssembleDebug on X, Google Messages is working on bringing image captioning. In the image shared by AssembeDebug, we see screenshots with the text added.
This is a great feature to have, and it will make sending messages between people in Google Messages what’s more convenient. At this point, we don’t know when Google is going to roll this feature out to everyone. It seems complete enough to be rolled out soon. However, there’s no telling if Google is going to roll this out arbitrarily or as part of a new feature drop. If it’s part of a feature drop, then it will be a few months away. Hopefully, that’s not the case