Explore group conversations in Google Messages

You can edit the settings of your group conversations in Google Messages.

• Group conversations: Send an MMS reply to all recipients.
• Mass text: Send an SMS reply to all recipients and get individual replies.

Change how you send group messages 

1. Open Google Messages .
2. Tap your profile photo or icon Messages settings Advanced Group messaging.
3. Choose mass text or group MMS as your default.

Add to or name a group conversation

If your group members all have RCS chats turned on, you can change options for group conversations:

• To add people to a group from within a conversation, tap More Group details  Add people.
• You can name a group when you create it. Only you can see the group name.
• To rename a group, tap More Group details. Tap the group name and enter the new name. Tap OK.

Check if RCS chat is available

1. Open Google Messages .
2. Start a new conversation.
3. Find contacts with the "RCS" tag.

Tips:

• If you add a contact that doesn't have the "RCS" tag, it creates an MMS chat.
• If your group members have RCS chats turned on, you can find iPhone contacts with the “RCS” tag.

Snooze conversations

1. Open Google Messages .
2. Touch and hold a conversation.
3. At the top of the screen, tap Snooze .
4. Select how long you want to snooze the conversation:
   • 1 hour
   • 8 hours
   • 24 hours
   • Always
5. Tap Snooze .

Remove the snooze of a conversation

1. Touch and hold the conversation.
2. Tap Snooze .

Remove a user from an RCS conversation

Important: You can't remove a user from SMS or MMS groups.

To remove a participant from the conversation:

1. Open Google Messages .
2. Tap the RCS conversation.
3. At the top right, tap More Group details.
4. Scroll to the list of group participants.
5. On the right of the participant you want to remove, tap More Remove from group.

Related resources

• Archive, delete & read conversations in Google Messages
• Learn about Rich Communication Services (RCS) messaging