Google Messages launches group RCS Mentions and Trash folder

After beta testing for the past several weeks and months, Google Messages today officially announced Mentions and the Trash folder.

Mentions was first previewed earlier this month with other new Android features, but Google today announced the “launch of Mentions in Google Messages” to make sure the “right person finds your message right when you need them.”

When you mention someone in an RCS group chat by using @, “they get a notification, even if the chat is muted.” 

You can @ mention multiple people in a message, while Google lets you edit “the saved name of the recipient in real time” from the text field: 

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Google today also announced the Trash folder that replaces the immediate Delete action with “Move to Trash.” There’s also a quick “Undo” option. 

Conversations in Trash are not emptied for 30 days. (On Android Go phones, it’s 7 days “to save space.”) You can find Trash underneath Archive in the top-right corner profile menu. From here, there’s:

Despite the announcement, we’re not seeing this widely rolled out yet.