Google Messages is testing a new animation in its latest beta (v20250115_03_RC00) that makes sent and received messages ...

Screen Effects add some big screen-filling animations to your Google Messages chats. So far, Screen Effects have been activated by using specific text trigger phrases. Messages now appears to ...

adding over 15 visual effects triggered by specific keywords in messages. An option to disable these animations seems to have surfaced in the latest version of the Messages app with a toggle in ...

People using Google Messages for a long time must have triggered one of the app’s Screen Effects – the full-screen animations that appear while entering specific phrases into the chat.