Samsung Messages Going Away?

[AYColumbia]

Is Samsung Messages getting dropped/retired? I ask because I keep seeing the attached upgrade note. If I wanted to use Google messages I would but Samsung's is better IMHO.

[AYColumbia]

I guess we'll know for sure by the time the S26 rolls out. Hehe

[GaryB82]

From everything I'm hearing it's staying around for awhile.  They was too many people that wanted it to stay.

[theslimshadyist]

I'm a Google Messages user but I downloaded Samsung Messages from the Galaxy store last week to test it out. I can confirm that RCS does work on my unlocked S25U on the T-Mobile network.

[CrystalDragon]

Personally I despise Google messenger would rather have samsung messenger. I just wanna change it back to samsung . Not a fan of Google version of messenger

[GaryB82]

You can simply download Samsung Messages from the Galaxy Store 

[CrystalDragon]

I did won't let me reinstall it

[Tidbitty]

S25 and newer and a lot of the features don't work like theming support. Depending on carrier no RCS support

[theslimshadyist]

Reactions don't work in the latest USA version of Sammy Messages like they do with Google. However, this feature was added in the recent Korean build which I hope will come to the US.

[Mercurie]

I don't think Samsung Messages is going away, but if it did I would not switch to Google Messages. It has a lousy interface and I absolutely hate it. I would switch to an entirely different text client. Anyway, I wish Samsung would stop with the "upgrade" prompts (it's more of a downgrade to me).