It’s nice to see Google lastly giving its official Messages app the correct care and a spotlight it deserves, after so a few years of shuffling between varied messaging apps and companies. Along with new updates for RCS, it appears to be like just like the Mountain View firm may very well be engaged on a solution to combine WhatsApp calls into Google Messages.
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As reported in Android Authority’s APK teardown, model v20250131 of Google Messages exhibits an choice to provoke a WhatsApp name – in the meanwhile, tapping on a video name possibility inside a message thread will provoke a Google Meet name setup web page. In the intervening time nonetheless, this solely labored for particular person calls with no such choices for group chats, which nonetheless exhibits the Google Meet possibility.
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Provided that no official teaser was given by both Google or WhatsApp at this level, it’s unknown if and when Google will formally add this characteristic to the Messages app. Ought to it push by way of nonetheless, this may function a greater possibility for many customers provided that not everybody makes use of Google Meet for informal video calls, and most customers could have a WhatsApp account anyway.
