While Google Messages offers a variety of exclusive features like bringing RCS to more Android phones and allowing texting from the web, there are quite a few things it can’t do. One of those is about to change, as it seems it has begun to allow a lucky few to schedule when messages should be sent.
Over the last year or two, Google Messages has grown in two distinct directions. The first is to become an app competitive with iMessage. To this end, Messages can enable RCS “Chat features” on
all Android phones in a variety of countries, bringing other iMessage-like capabilities such as
using an emoji reaction on a message.
The other direction in which it has grown is to be more productive like Gmail. The biggest telltale of this growth is the recent development of “
Message Organization” which neatly — and automatically — sorts your SMS/MMS/RCS conversations into groups like “Personal,” “Transactions,” and “OTPs.”
One feature of Gmail that fans of Google Messages have been clamoring for, especially because it’s available through other texting apps, is the ability to schedule your messages to be sent at a later time. According to reader
Sai Reddy, Google has now begun to roll out scheduled messaging to at least a lucky few people out there.
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