2023:Google messages brings out best features to complete with Imessage and Whatsapp
Google has reportedly completed the rollout of end-to-end encryption for group conversations in its Messages app. This, however, still only applies to users enrolled in the Messages beta program.
The Google Messages app already includes end-to-end encryption when messaging someone who also has the RCS chat features enabled. However, so far, this has been limited to messages between two parties and not group chats.
In an email sent to the press last year shortly after Google I/O, Google promised that end-to-end encryption for group conversations was in the works and slated to be rolled out soon, with the beta version of the Messages app getting the update first. This came to fruition last month when Google updated Messages Beta to include E2EE, thus making it an open beta.