Messages app crashing

[Papyrus16]

My Samsung Messages app keeps closing. I've restarted my phone multiple times. I've gone to Settings > App Settings > Messages > Storage and hit Clear cache and Clear data. When I do this, the space used for cache and data go down to 0, but then immediately go back up to the original storage amounts when I reopen Messages.

I found a previous conversation about Messages crashing in Dec 2023 and tried following the instructions but when I held down the power button and volume up with the phone turned off, the phone restarted as normal, even though I held them down until after the Samsung logo disappeared.

If I can't fix it, can I install a different app for

My Google storage is 94% full. Could that be connected?

[Members_xJjfCGJ]

Forced stop on Meet and disabled, texts are working.

Thank you

[Samsung_xrL8imt]

As soon as I uninstalled the updates for google meet the messages app started working again!!

[csamb4u73]

This is a guarantee to fix!!! Thanks to those B4 me. 

[Sheeeeeesh]

Works! 🤠

[twjones]

Works. But it was just called Meet on my phone, not Google Meet. Just search apps for Meet.

[usergcXxotaiYM]

Same

[breezy1029]

Just worked for me!! Thank you

[Gellyrok]

Perfect

[DdLl]

I try to read messages, my phone keeps stopping, why???

[sdcreech]

Omg im so angry that it was that easy of a fix lol.. after all the troubleshooting in safe mode and cashe cleaning. Thank you random member of the public for your service that should have been done by samsung. When companies fail us all we have is each other