Google Messages UI Refresh: New Gallery-Camera Separation and Selfie GIFs

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📝 Key Points of This Article

• Google Messages, the SMS / MMS / RCS client app for Android, has received a minor UI refresh and a new feature.
• The UI refresh focuses on the “Gallery” message extension, where “Gallery (Photo Picker)” and “Camera” have now been separated.
• The new feature is “Selfie GIF,” which allows you to record and send an approximately 4-second animated video on the spot.

Following the start of the rollout for “Real-time Location Sharing,” the Android SMS / MMS / RCS client app “Google Messages” appears to have introduced a minor UI refresh and a new feature.

The UI refresh in Google Messages for Android involves the “Gallery” message extension. Previously, the “Gallery” integrated both the “Camera” and the “Photo Picker,” but following the refresh, “Gallery (Photo Picker)” and “Camera” have been separated into distinct options.

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Additionally, the new feature introduced to Google Messages for Android is “Selfie GIF,” which allows you to record and send an animated video of about 4 seconds right then and there. It is a fun, playful feature.

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