TL;DR
- Google Messages’ redesigned search interface is starting to appear on some of our devices running the beta version.
- The new interface organizes shared images, videos, and links into visual sections, with a bottom search field and separate results for chats and messages.
- A new in-chat search shortcut is also appearing for some beta testers.
Google Messages is getting serious about making old conversations and shared content easier to find. After months of spotting search improvements hidden in the app’s code, we’re finally seeing some of those changes arrive on actual devices.
Back in September, we uncovered a major Google Messages search overhaul that promised to make finding photos, videos, links, and individual messages considerably easier. At the time, we had to manually enable the redesigned interface. That’s no longer necessary.
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