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Massive Samsung Messages Update Coming To Galaxy Smartphones With One UI 8.0
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Jun 25, 2025
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what's up YouTube jeff back from Sammy
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Guru here and I'm back in the studio
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after my trip to New York for the S25
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S25 Edge orders We also have the ZFold 7
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Z Flip 7 mystery box program If you guys
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want to go ahead and sign up there you
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can do that as well Today we're going to
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talk about the Samsung Messages
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application A lot of you guys have been
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asking me to talk about Samsung Messages
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a little bit and uh get into what's
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going on with Samsung Messages and we
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have some new information finally There
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really hasn't been much to report but
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Samsung has been working on Samsung
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Messages in the background Despite
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earlier this year saying they were
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getting rid of it So if you guys don't
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know the full story and you haven't been
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following all my videos on this Samsung
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said at the beginning of 2025 and
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actually towards the end of 2024 some of
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their carrier partners like Verizon said
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that the Samsung Messages app in the US
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would cease to work with RCS and that
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eventually Samsung Messages would be
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sunset in favor of Google Messages Now
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fast forward to the Galaxy S25 release
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The Galaxy S25 series shipped with
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Google Messages and I have Google
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Messages and Samsung Messages right
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there both installed but I use Samsung
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Messages by default Google Messages was
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the default out of the box However when
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I first got my Galaxy S25 Ultra I did
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some digging The Samsung Messages app
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was available in the Galaxy Store which
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it had not been for a while And when I
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download and install it it told me and
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that I could get RCS and it did the RCS
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chat onboarding Uh and of course we went
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through and and kind of talked about all
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of this stuff If you go into the
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settings here you'll see chat settings
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are there You've got all of your various
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chat functionality read receipts video
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quality default type of message what to
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do if the chat isn't delivered However
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there's still a lot of RCS features that
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are missing from Samsung Messages like
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reactions and some of the other rich
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features Reactions is a big one reacting
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to a message with like an emoji or
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whatever a sticker like you can do on
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Google messages You can also of course
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do on the iPhone with iMessage and
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that's not in Samsung messages Well we
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found like a couple months ago that
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Samsung was working on some stuff but
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only in China uh for their chat app
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there which is different than RCS but
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it's kind of like the Chinese version of
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RCS And now this report has come out
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from Android Authority that Samsung is
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working on building in several new
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features from Google Messages into
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Samsung Messages for 1 UI 8.0 which is
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crazy This whole saga is weird It's like
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RCS is going away The app is going away
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in the US Everybody moved Google
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Messages They were actively telling
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users you know download Google Messages
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install it That's what you need to use
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now Then the S25 series comes out you're
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able to download Samsung Messages again
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even though it's not the default Um and
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clearly it looks like they're not
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sunsetting it So what new features are
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we going to get well birthday reminders
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which is a feature available in Google
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Messages already Basically if you have a
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contact you get a notification when it's
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their birthday So you could send them a
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message It'll offer you to send them a
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message to wish them a happy birthday
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Kind of like how Facebook and other
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social platforms have this like when
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you're friends with a certain person uh
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live location sharing which is a massive
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feature I know a lot of people use that
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with their family I do use this as well
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with my wife and as my kids get older I
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imagine I'll probably use this just for
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their part you know their safety You
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know it's obviously if the person wants
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to do it share their location with you
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But I use it you know whenever I'm out
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to share my location with my wife just
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so she knows where I'm at while
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completing a list of errands This is
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going to be there Share live location
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with contacts This is going to be
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introduced with Google Messages as well
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with Android 16 might be some slight
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differences in the functionality Uh for
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Samsung users this could require a
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Samsung account which is kind of a
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bummer to have that barrier But of
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course Google Messages requires a Google
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account so it's not like it's a huge
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difference there between the two And it
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might use the Samsung Find application
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which is Samsung's app to find all of
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your various devices as well like your
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smart tags as well and all of your
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devices on a map The final one which is
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perhaps the most important one for users
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is Samsung Messages will also add
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support for emoji and sticker reactions
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which are already available in Google
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Messages Sticker reactions will work
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like photo emojis allowing users to
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react to a message with custom stickers
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Meanwhile Samsung is also enhancing the
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now brief We already talked about this
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previously Uh working to bring
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functionality to uh have blocked
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messages appear So if you go into
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settings you go into your now brief go
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into Galaxy Eye scroll down to your now
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brief you'll see under content to
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include you've already got blocked
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messages listed here That's going to
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notify you in the now brief about
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blocked messages You might also get some
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information about suspicious messages as
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well So this is great news obviously for
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everybody who loves Samsung Messages I
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love it I prefer to over Google Messages
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but there's obviously a couple features
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I would like to see them bring Uh I
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would really like to see them bring the
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ability to autodelete OTP codes Uh I do
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have like a little tab up here for my
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OTPs in Samsung messages with the
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categories but what I don't have is I do
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not have uh anything in there that
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allows me to go through um and actually
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get those OTPs autodeleted So they free
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up space that's inside of my um inbox So
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I'd really excited about this 1UI beta
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could come out later this month We've
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heard accelerated schedule for the beta
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1 UI8 beta could be by the end of May Be
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testing all these I'm trying to install
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an early build on my phone I'm going try
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to do it today just with the S25 Edge
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launch Everything kind of got behind
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because I've been traveling and doing
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all that stuff I'll have a short
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hands-on video of the S25 Edge as well
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We did a full write up of the hands-on
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We have tons of coverage If you guys are
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interested check it out Check out the
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Mystery Box program If you're not
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getting S25 Edge though ZFold 7 Z Flip 7
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already open Also the Galaxy S26 page
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will go live very very early I know
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we're 8 months away People can start
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signing up for that if they're
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interested Appreciate you guys checking
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out this video and of course I'll see
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you in the next one