Open Google Messages → profile icon → Messages settings → RCS chats → turn off “RCS chats.” Wait a full 5 minutes (not 30 seconds — the deregistration needs time to propagate to Google’s servers).

Settings I should've changed on day one.

In April, Samsung announced that it would close its messaging app on Galaxy devices in July. Here’s what it means.

Samsung Messages shutdown and users are being forced to Google Messages. All chat history should transfer, and powerful ...

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Samsung Messages will cease to work for some Galaxy phone users in the US in July. Here's why, and how you can transfer your conversations from Samsung Messages to Google Messages.

You may be hearing that Samsung Messages is going away, and for many Android users, that's true. Samsung is quietly phasing out its Samsung Messages app and moving people to Google Messages as the ...