Samsung discontinuing its namesake texting app – NBC Bay Space

Samsung is saying goodbye its namesake texting app.

According to an end of service announcement printed on the tech big’s U.S. help web site, Samsung Messages will likely be discontinued in July. Impacted house owners of Samsung smartphones and different devices are being requested to change to Google Messages within the meantime, “to maintain a consistent messaging experience on Android.”

All Samsung Galaxy telephones run on Google’s Android working system. To change to Google Messages, Samsung’s web site offers customers directions to obtain the app from the Play Store, if not already on their cellphone, and set it because the default. Some folks might also obtain an in-app notification to information them by the method.

Samsung says switching to Google Messages will give customers entry to updates like the newest synthetic intelligence options from Google’s Gemini — which incorporates an experimental characteristic known as “Remix” to generate pictures throughout conversations and AI-powered reply solutions — and the power to share larger high quality photographs between Android and Apple iOS gadgets by RCS-enabled messages.

Users of older Android working methods (courting again to Android 11 or older) is not going to be impacted by the top of Samsung Messages, the corporate famous. To examine what Android OS you’ve got on a Samsung system, open the settings app, click on on “software information” and scroll to “Android version.”

Meanwhile, house owners of Samsung’s newest Galaxy 26 lineup and different newer telephones can not obtain the Samsung Messages app from the Galaxy Store at present.

All gadgets will not have the ability to obtain Samsung Messages after it is formally discontinued in July, the corporate famous. Samsung stated customers can examine their app for the precise date for when service will go offline.

Beyond the U.S., Samsung didn’t instantly reply to a request for additional details about whether or not its steerage for Samsung Messages was the identical globally.