# 5 Google Messages settings you might want to disable

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/5-google-messages-settings-you-might-want-to-disable/
- Published: 2026-11-07T17:30:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-07T18:35:43+00:00
- Original publisher: Engadget
- Original article: https://www.engadget.com/2306181/google-messages-settings-might-want-to-disable/
- Topics: Gadgets, Software, Technology

## Key points

- Google Messages is now the article’s preferred choice for most Android users.
- Turning off read receipts can reduce pressure to reply.
- Message sounds and bubble chats are among the settings discussed.

## Summary

The article argues that Google Messages has improved enough to be a good choice for most Android users, but some default settings may make it less pleasant to use. It recommends disabling selected features to reduce unwanted notifications, sounds and other interruptions.

Google promoted RCS as a messaging standard and improved its own app, which Samsung now favours over Samsung Messages. The article describes turning off RCS read receipts to avoid sharing when messages have been read, and switching off the sounds that play when messages are sent or received while the app is open. It introduces bubble chats as another setting under discussion, but the supplied article text ends before the full list of five settings.

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