Your texting app with a major improvement. It’s strange that only now

The new solution introduced by Google is intended to protect users from… accidental and irreversible loss of important conversations. The idea to improve the world’s most popular SMS application appeared already in the fall of last year, when Google started the first tests of this solution. Later it became quiet, but now, as reported by Android Authority, it’s already heading to our phones.

Currently, in Google News, pressing the button responsible for deleting it irrevocably destroys the entire conversation. In the new test version of the application, number 20260227, the standard “Delete” action in menus and gestures has been replaced with moving the conversation to a new section called “Basket”. This means that direct and immediate deletion of the chat from the main view will no longer be possible.

Conversations deleted in this way can be accessed by clicking the profile icon in the upper right corner of the screen and selecting the “Trash” tab. Inside this folder there are convenient ones “Restore all” and “Delete all” buttonsallowing for quick, collective content management. Users can also long-press on a selected item in the list to permanently delete or restore just one specific chat.

The existence of a trash bin in an SMS app seems to exist something obvious and banal. There are trash bins in Gmail and other email apps, so why shouldn’t there be bins in the text messaging app? The idea of ​​temporarily storing deleted content has been working successfully for years in the Samsung Messages and Apple Messages applications. For some reason Google hasn’t made a decision yet to introduce it into your own News.

Currently, the new feature is reaching the first testers of the application’s beta channel and should be made available in the near future in the stable version of the program.