You can delete messages off the phones of everyone in a chat with this new Google Messages feature.
Messaging is one of the big ways the iPhone and Android phones differ. Before the advent of RCS messaging, that was because of the difference between SMS / MMS messaging and Apple’s iMessage. SMS and MMS chats have limites on message length and the file size of just about any file you can send. iMessage, on the other hand, removes those limits (it also notably works over Wi-Fi) and adds in new features, like voice messages, and the ability to edit and unsend just about anything you send within a given time limit. That is, until RCS (Rich Communication Services), a modern replacement for MMS, was introduced.
As Google has pushed for RCS adoption, it’s also worked to add in features to the Google Messages app that bring it closer to what Apple offers to iPhone owners. Some of those features, like read receipts, are built into the standard already. Others, like the ability to set the background for a chat or edit a message, are entirely custom. As part of a recent update, Google finally added the ability to unsend messages so they’re removed from the phones of everyone participating in a chat.
