In a future update, Google Messages will finally allow you to add text to caption the images you send. A minor improvement that will avoid commenting on a photo in a separate message.

In a future update, Google Messages will finally allow you to add text to caption the images you send. A minor improvement that will avoid commenting on a photo in a separate message.

Over the course of its successive and numerous versions, Google Messages is getting closer and closer to popular instant messaging services, such as WhatsApp or Signal. Thus, messages can now be accompanied by photos, high quality videos, links, or even emojis. It is also possible to create group conversations and even activate typing indicators which show when the correspondents are writing. And Google doesn’t plan to stop there to improve its app. As revealed by AssembleDebug on X (formerly Twitter), a new option for transferring images in RCS discussions will soon appear.

In the current version – as in previous versions – it is impossible to include a caption to images. So, when you send a photo, you must comment on it in a separate message. Nothing catastrophic, of course, but in a future version, Google Messages will do like WatsApp: and it will be possible to include text as a caption in the same message as the image. It’s a minor addition, certainly, but one that will make conversations more fluid and, above all, reduce the flow of messages and notifications. For the moment, we do not yet know when this function will be officially deployed, but we should be able to benefit from it soon during a next update. What is certain, and appreciable, is that Google continues to improve its messaging app by constantly adding more or less spectacular functions.