After you’ve unwrapped and arrange your new Galaxy S25, it’s possible you’ll discover an app beforehand at all times put in on Samsung telephones has disappeared. Samsung has stopped pre-installing its personal Samsung Messages app, and handed mobile messaging duties solely over to Google. On the Galaxy S25, Google Messages is the one pre-installed, and subsequently default, messaging app.
Samsung confirmed the motion in an electronic mail to Android Authority, stating:
“With the shut collaboration between Google and Samsung, now we have opted emigrate all companies to Google Messages and are sunsetting Samsung Messages. It’s now not obtainable within the Play Retailer; nonetheless, those that selected to make the most of Samsung Messages are nonetheless in a position to take action. 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.”
There’s no point out of the Samsung Messages app whenever you seek for it within the Google Play Retailer, as anticipated, nonetheless the app remains to be obtainable to obtain via Samsung’s personal Galaxy Retailer on the Galaxy S25. The Galaxy Retailer model was up to date on January 15, and the outline offers a number of the explanation why you shouldn’t obtain and use it as an alternative of Google Messages.
The outline reads:
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“It is a download-only Samsung Messages app, which has some limitations. It doesn’t help Samsung Themes, it doesn’t help options launched after One UI 6.1.1, and it doesn’t help RCS characteristic when utilizing satellite tv for pc mode.”
The swap to Google Messages isn’t a whole shock. In July 2024 Samsung alerted Galaxy cellphone house owners through its Samsung Members app that Samsung Messages wouldn’t be pre-installed on the Galaxy Z Fold 6 and Galaxy Z Flip 6, and Google Messages would take its place. The shift was solely related in some areas, however with the Galaxy S25 it seems to be customary throughout all. Verizon inspired Samsung cellphone house owners to modify to Google Messages after the provider introduced Samsung Messages wouldn’t help RCS messaging from early 2025.
Whether or not Google Messages will exchange Samsung Messages on different Galaxy telephones when an replace to One UI 7 arrives stays to be seen. Should you would slightly get forward of any alteration, Google Messages is obtainable to obtain via the Google Play Retailer now.
