Google is slowly ruining the most important app on your phone
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Key Points:
- Google Messages has undergone numerous updates in 2025, adding features like customization, enhanced group chats, and RCS compatibility with iOS, but constant design and feature changes have made the app feel cluttered and inconsistent.
- The integration of AI features, including Google's "Nano Banana" generative AI, has introduced new photo editing and messaging tools, but users find these AI elements intrusive and disruptive to the app's usability.
- Frequent interface changes, especially around media sharing controls, have led to a confusing and laggy user experience, detracting from the previously simple and reliable messaging environment.
- The rollout of RCS technology aimed to enhance messaging with features similar to iMessage, but its implementation has created a walled garden,
