Abandoning its own text messaging app, Samsung Galaxy phones switch to Google Messages in the US market

July 21 news: Samsung Electronics has been pre-installing its own text messaging app Samsung Messages on its Galaxy phones and tablets for many years, but this has recently changed. It is reported that Samsung has stopped pre-installing Samsung Messages in the US market and instead uses Google Messages as the default text messaging application.

1. Starting from Galaxy Z Flip6 and Galaxy Z Fold6, Samsung’s official forum confirmed that the Samsung Messages app will be removed.

2. These two phones are equipped with One UI 6.1.1 system.
3. Other markets like Canada and Europe will still have the Samsung Messages app pre-installed.
4. Users can still download and install the Samsung Messages app through the Google Play Store.

   

   1. In fact, as early as 2022, Samsung has set Google Messages as the default text messaging application in some areas, laying the groundwork for this time to completely abandon its own application.
5. Although Samsung Messages also supports RCS rich communication services, Samsung is obviously more inclined to promote the use of Google Messages.
6. Industry speculation is that Google may have reached an agreement with Android manufacturers, including Samsung, to uniformly use Google Messages as the default SMS application to increase the popularity of RCS.
7. It is worth mentioning that Google and Samsung have been pushing Apple to support RCS in recent years.
8. Under pressure from the EU, Apple will finally introduce RCS support in iOS 18 to improve the text messaging experience between iPhone users and Android users.
9. Some analysts believe that Google may cooperate with Samsung to set Google Messages as the default text messaging application in advance to prepare for the launch of iOS 18 to provide consumers with a more consistent experience.

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