Google Messages Now Lets You Turn Blue Chat Bubbles Green (or Orange or Purple)

Google Messages is getting an update – this time with some pizzazz.

Google is testing theaddition of color and background customizationfor the RCS messaging app onAndroid phones.

Still in beta, the options will allow you to set custom backgrounds and chat bubble colors.

They’ll be available more broadly in the “near future.”

Google’s RCS, aniMessage-like standard, allows you to send higher-quality images via messaging and also use encryption.

For its part, Google Messages is the tech titan’s latest effort to bring communication under one app.

Over the past couple years, though, Google has put increasing attention on its Google Messages app.

Samsung made the app itsdefault native messaging program in 2021, as have somecarriers, including AT&T.