What's new in Google Messages 3.8.043

• One tap access to camera and photos from a conversation.
• New search feature to find photos and other media from within a conversation.

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About Google Messages 3.8.043

Meet Messages, Google's official app for texting (SMS, MMS) and chat (RCS). Message anyone from anywhere with the reliability of texting and the richness of chat. Stay in touch with friends and family, send group texts, and share your favorite pictures, GIFs, emoji, stickers, videos and audio messages.

Clean, intuitive, and comfortable design
Instant notifications, smart replies and a fresh new design make communicating faster and more fun. With dark mode, you can use Messages comfortably in low-light situations.

Easy sharing
Select or take pictures and videos directly from the app and share easily. You can even send audio messages to your contacts.

Richer conversations
Send audio messages, emoji, stickers, or your location. You can also send and receive payments with Google Pay.

Powerful search
Now you can find more of the content shared in your conversations: tap on the search icon and select a specific contact to see your messaging history with them and all the photos, videos, addresses or links you shared with each other.

Chat features (RCS)
On supported carriers, you can send and receive messages over Wi-Fi or your data network, see when friends are typing or when they have read your message, share images and videos in high quality, and more.
Messages is supported on devices running Android™ 5.0 Lollipop and above.

Google Messages 3.8.043 screenshots (12)

Screenshots from version 20260601_00_RC00

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This release comes in several variants (we currently have 17). Consult our handy FAQ to see which download is right for you.

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Arch
Version
DPI
3.8.043 (basilisk_RC21_alldpi.armeabi-v7a.phone) APK 0980
38043230
December 5, 2018
armeabi-v7a
Android 5.0+
nodpi
3.8.043 (basilisk_RC21_mdpi.armeabi-v7a.phone) APK 0980
38043232
December 5, 2018
armeabi-v7a
Android 5.0+
160dpi
3.8.043 (basilisk_RC21_hdpi.armeabi-v7a.phone) APK 0980
38043234
December 5, 2018
armeabi-v7a
Android 5.0+
213-240dpi
3.8.043 (basilisk_RC21_xhdpi.armeabi-v7a.phone) APK 0980
38043236
December 5, 2018
armeabi-v7a
Android 5.0+
320dpi
3.8.043 (basilisk_RC21_xxhdpi.armeabi-v7a.phone) APK 0980
38043238
December 5, 2018
armeabi-v7a
Android 5.0+
400-480dpi
3.8.043 (basilisk_RC21_xxxhdpi.armeabi-v7a.phone) APK 0980
38043239
December 6, 2018
armeabi-v7a
Android 5.0+
560-640dpi
3.8.043 (basilisk_RC21_alldpi.arm64-v8a.phone) APK 0980
38043240
December 5, 2018
arm64-v8a
Android 5.0+
nodpi
3.8.043 (basilisk_RC21_hdpi.arm64-v8a.phone) APK 0980
38043244
December 5, 2018
arm64-v8a
Android 5.0+
213-240dpi
3.8.043 (basilisk_RC21_xhdpi.arm64-v8a.phone) APK 0980
38043246
December 5, 2018
arm64-v8a
Android 5.0+
320dpi
3.8.043 (basilisk_RC21_xxhdpi.arm64-v8a.phone) APK 0980
38043248
December 5, 2018
arm64-v8a
Android 5.0+
400-480dpi
3.8.043 (basilisk_RC21_xxxhdpi.arm64-v8a.phone) APK 0980
38043249
December 5, 2018
arm64-v8a
Android 5.0+
560-640dpi
3.8.043 (basilisk_RC21_alldpi.x86.phone) APK 0980
38043270
December 5, 2018
x86
Android 5.0+
nodpi
3.8.043 (basilisk_RC21_hdpi.x86.phone) APK 0980
38043274
December 5, 2018
x86
Android 5.0+
213-240dpi
3.8.043 (basilisk_RC21_xxhdpi.x86.phone) APK 0980
38043278
December 5, 2018
x86
Android 5.0+
400-480dpi
3.8.043 (basilisk_RC21_hdpi.armeabi-v7a.phone) APK 0980
38043334
December 5, 2018
armeabi-v7a
Android 8.0+
213-240dpi
3.8.043 (basilisk_RC21_hdpi.arm64-v8a.phone) APK 0980
38043344
December 5, 2018
arm64-v8a
Android 8.0+
213-240dpi
3.8.043 (basilisk_RC21_hdpi.x86.phone) APK 0980
38043374
December 5, 2018
x86
Android 8.0+
213-240dpi
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