Following the announcement final month, Google Messages has broadly rolled out its new Trash folder to avoid wasting you from unintentional deletions.
Beforehand, deleting a dialog instantly eliminated it out of your Android telephone. The brand new Trash folder serves as a “security internet.”
After tapping the “Trash” icon, Google Messages will clarify the brand new conduct: “Chat will likely be deleted after 30 days.”
This “grace interval” provides you a month earlier than conversations are completely deleted. (On Android Go units, the length is 7 days to “save house.”)
You may entry the Trash folder from the account menu by tapping your profile picture within the top-right nook. It seems beneath Archived, which is unchanged at present.
This checklist reveals what number of messages are in every dialog. You may “Delete all” or shortly restore all or particular person threads again to the principle display.
In the meantime, if a chat within the Trash receives a brand new message, a “new thread with solely the brand new message seems in your fundamental chat checklist,” with the earlier ones remaining within the Trash folder.
We’re seeing the Google Messages Trash broadly rolled out with secure model 20260327_00_RC00 of the app.
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