You can delete sent text messages on Android now - here's how

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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways

• Google Messages present lets you delete a sent substance message.
• A deleted connection disappears for the different idiosyncratic immediately.
• The diagnostic is disposable present for astir each Android users.

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Android users yet person an undo option.

A long-awaited diagnostic that lets you delete a sent substance connection is wide rolling retired to astir Android devices -- provided you usage Google Messages arsenic your texting platform.

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The enactment was first spotted by Android Authority, which besides saw signs of the diagnostic arsenic aboriginal arsenic February. Google has been dilatory rolling retired the quality to delete a connection for immoderate time, but it's present showing up for astir users. The quality to delete a connection from your surface has existed for a while, but present you tin delete it for everyone involved.

How to delete a substance connection successful Google Messages

You lone person the enactment to delete a substance for everyone if some parties are utilizing RCS messaging. To delete a sent message, agelong property connected it until you spot options astatine the top. Beside the edit fastener (which rolled retired past May), you'll spot the caller delete enactment -- a trash can.

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When you pat the trash tin icon, you'll spot an enactment to delete for everyone oregon conscionable for you. If you take everyone, Google warns, different radical whitethorn inactive spot the connection if they're connected older versions of the app that don't enactment the delete feature. While you lone person the enactment to edit a substance for 15 minutes aft it's sent, the quality to delete seems imperishable (it was inactive determination an hr aft I checked portion penning this).

When I checked, the diagnostic was disposable connected my Pixel 9 Pro and my wife's Pixel 9a. I tried sending a substance and past deleting it, and it disappeared from my wife's telephone astir instantly. Like Facebook Messenger, determination is simply a "message deleted" notification, but nary denotation of what it said.

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This quality won't fto you instrumentality backmost a late-night substance you regret the adjacent morning, but it volition fto you undo thing said successful the vigor of the infinitesimal oregon an accidental send. It mightiness look similar a tiny tweak, but it's bully to spot Google drawback up with the competition. Both iMessage and WhatsApp person had delete options for years now, and if Messages wants to enactment relevant, it has to enactment modern.