You can send and receive text messages with friends and contacts on Google Messages. Important: Some of these steps only work on Android 6.0 and up. Learn how to check your Android versio

To add a fun and creative twist to your conversations, you can create and send short, personalized GIFs directly from your Google Messages chats.

You can send and receive text messages, photos, voice messages, and video using Google Messages. If you don't have Google Messages, you can get it from Google Play.

You can use your computer or Android tablet to chat with your friends through Google Messages for web, which shows what’s on your Google Messages mobile app. Google Messages for web sends …

Official Android Messages Help Center where you can find tips and tutorials on using Android Messages and other answers to frequently asked questions.

You can send and receive SMS (text) and MMS (multimedia) messages through the Messages app . Messages are considered texts and don't count toward your data usage.

Send a text message You can use the Google Voice website to send text messages to one or more phone numbers. If you send a text longer than 160 characters to a non-Google Voice number, it's …

Send a text message You can use the Google Voice website to send text messages to one or more phone numbers. If you send a text of more than 160 characters to a non-Google Voice number, it'll …

Reply to a message You can send replies to messages. When you send a reply to a specific message in a conversation, the content of the original message is quoted along with your reply Important: If …

Change advanced settings Change how Google Messages sends pictures, videos & audio files Send a message or a file separately to each person in a conversation: Tap Group messaging Send an SMS …