Google Workspace’s alternative to Slack, Google Chat, is adding support for custom emoji to your organization starting this week. Rolling out to everyone over the next two weeks, custom emoji in ...

Google's collaborative messaging platform, Google Chat, is starting to experiment with a visual update to get with the times. Following in the footsteps of other core Google apps like Gmail, Google ...

As we spotted over the weekend, Google Chat is getting a new icon, as well as redesigned navigation on the web app with dedicated views for “Home” and “Mentions.” This new icon adopts the four-color ...

Google Chat is adding the ability to preview new messages by moving your pointer over the contact’s name. Messages won’t be marked as read until you actually click through, ensuring you don’t miss ...

To say that Google is late to the party would be an understatement, given that Apple's Messages app has allowed users to ...

Google is rolling out a string of updates for the Messages app, including the ability to customize the colors of the text bubbles and backgrounds. So, if you really want to, you can have blue bubbles ...

In November 2025, a rumor circulated that Google's latest update had automatically opted in all users to allow its generative artificial intelligence (AI) program to train on private communications ...