- The Samsung Galaxy S25 sequence marks the tip of assist for Samsung Messages
- Samsung’s newest flagships include Google Messages because the default messenger app
- Samsung Messages has been pulled from digital storefronts
Samsung has quietly disabled one among its native apps for customers of the Samsung Galaxy S25, Galaxy S25 Plus, and Galaxy S25 Ultra.
The firm has made its Samsung Messages app fully unavailable to customers of its newest sequence of flagship telephones, as a substitute equipping these units with Google Messages by default.
The Galaxy S25 household aren’t the primary Samsung telephones to launch with out Samsung Messages – the Galaxy Z Flip 6 and Galaxy Z Fold 6 debuted final 12 months with Google Messages as their default messaging app. Users of those telephones did, nevertheless, have the choice of putting in and enabling Samsung Messages afterward. Galaxy S25 house owners don’t have any such choice – it’s Google Messages or nothing.
As PhoneArena notes, Samsung Messages customers on older Galaxy fashions who have already got the app put in will be capable to proceed utilizing it.
However, some concern has arisen over the way forward for Samsung Messages on older units – with the app pulled from shops and no future assist promised, it is unlikely to see important updates and should even miss out on safety updates.
A Samsung spokesperson issued an announcement to Android Authority on January 23 that provides some perception into the corporate’s choice to swap to Google Messages: “With the shut collaboration between Google and Samsung, we’ve got opted emigrate all providers to Google Messages and are sunsetting Samsung Messages. It’s not obtainable within the Play Store; nevertheless, those that selected to make the most of Samsung Messages are nonetheless ready to take action.”
The assertion provides that Google Messages’ enhanced RCS performance was an element within the choice: “We consider that the added performance of RCS messaging on Google Messages creates an enhanced consumer expertise for each Android-to-Android messaging and throughout platforms.”
Previous steps away from Samsung Messages and in the direction of Google Messages have been met with backlash from loyal Galaxy followers. A thread on r/GoogleMessages discussing Verizon’s choice to drop RCS assist from Samsung Messages in December 2024 included feedback like “Samsung had me change to Google Messages lower than per week in the past and it has been horrible ever since” from consumer WolfieVonD, and “Not glad about having to make use of google messages. Can Google go away any area untouched[?]” from consumer Ill-Room-5460.
Despite any attainable protests, it’s unlikely we’ll see this choice reversed. Google Messages comes pre-installed on all the finest Android telephones and, due to this change, can be customary on the very best Samsung telephones going forwards.
