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Samsung Messages Is Shutting Down, but There Are Ways to Keep Using It<\/a><\/p>\n

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Publish Date: 2026-04-06 12:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n

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It’s officially the end of an era for the Samsung Galaxy community: Samsung is discontinuing its messaging app. If you’re a Samsung Messages user, the company says you should plan to migrate to Google Messages to “upgrade your messaging experience.” <\/p>\n

This deprecation isn’t taking effect immediately, however. According to Samsung’s official end of service announcement, the company will discontinue Samsung Messages in July 2026. That means you still have roughly three months to keep using the app, if it happens to be your messaging client of choice. That said, the company is encouraging users to set Google Messages as their default messaging app today to “maintain a consistent messaging experience on Android.” Samsung says the app will tell users when service will be discontinued.<\/p>\n

Samsung is really pushing Google Messages in this end-of-service announcement. The company touts the app’s features, like Scam Detection, RCS messaging, AI features, and cross-platform connectivity, so you can pick up another Android device and keep chatting. To their credit, some of these features do make Google Messages the stronger messaging app compared to Samsung Messages\u2014in particular, RCS support. Samsung Messages users are stuck with SMS chats, which limits conversations in terms of both security and functionality. SMS chats don’t support high-resolution photo and video sharing, nor do they manage modern group chats well. Crucially, they aren’t encrypted, which puts your conversations at risk. While not all RCS chats are encrypted, the ones that are protect your conversations from would-be attackers.<\/p>\n

It’s not like this decision came totally out of the blue. If you’ve bought a new Samsung Galaxy device in recent years, you’ll notice that Samsung Messages didn’t come preinstalled. Instead, you had to seek it out and install it yourself from Samsung’s Galaxy Store. Samsung says Galaxy S26 devices can’t even download the app, and that following its deadline, no…<\/p>\n

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