Samsung Ditches Messages App, Switch to Google Messages

0:00It's April 6th. This is Canada News today, AI-powered stories from your city. I'm Corey with the story. Samsung's ditching its own messages app next month in July, telling all Galaxy phone owners to jump over to Google messages instead. This keeps things smooth on Android devices, since every Samsung Galaxy runs that Google system anyway. To make the switch, just hit the Play Store, grab Google messages if it's not there already, and set it as your default. Go get cool upgrades like Google's Gemini AI with stuff like remix to whip up images mid-chat and smart reply ideas. No big drama for folks on older Android versions like 11 or before, they keep using Samsung messages no problem. Quick check, dive into settings, tap software info, and peek at your Android version. Newer rides like the Galaxy 26 series can't even snag the Samsung app from the Galaxy store right now. Come July. No one's downloading it anywhere, so peep your app for the exact shutdown date.

1:01Heads up, Samsung crew time to level up that messaging game before it goes for good. Stay plugged in.