Google + developing an update to the Messages, which could radically change the way we look at the messages in the text by a number to a stranger. This is a function of the new development, and will reveal the name of the sender, the notice when you receive a text message, even if the number is not in the book to your address book.
In this way, if the number is unknown, it is linked to a Google account, the Messages will be in a position to identify the contact, and display name, and its straight to the notification push, while the simplified management of the message by the sender, which are not present in your contacts.
The Android noticed the new function, from the analysis of the beta version of the latest Google Messages (messages.android_20240506_01_RC00.phone_samsung_openbeta_dynamic).
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Since this feature to be effective, the sender will need to have enabled the detection of the profile. At present, the activation or deactivation of this option requires the access to your account in the Google on the internet. While there is a one-page support, which describes the steps needed to do this in Google's Messages, they are not straightforward, as the company is working more to increase the setting.
The latest version of the beta set is that of the present, but are hidden by default, and you can't turn on by the modification of the APK file available.
The transparency and security in the greater
To see your name next to the number of the unknown is nothing new. Some of the users, the beta have now access on an item similar to the first. However, the change in the core lies in the fact that their names will be displayed directly in the notifications of the messages, including the identification of the shippers of the unknown, the more immediate and accessible.
In this update, Google's Messages give users greater transparency when they receive a message from the number of the unknown, you don't have the book in their address book. Seeing the name of the sender, the statement, due to the connection with Google account, it will allow you to identify more easily than he who sends the message.
It remains to be seen if and when it will be implemented in the fact that the feature, but the conditions are promising for the improvement of the experience of the user, and the security of the chat.
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