Every day, over a billion people use Google Messages to communicate. That’s why we’ve made security a top priority, building in powerful on-device, AI-powered filters and advanced security that protects users from 2 billion suspicious messages a month. With end-to-end encrypted1 RCS conversations, you can communicate privately with other Google Messages RCS users. And we’re not stopping there. We’re committed to constantly developing new controls and features to make your conversations on Google Messages even more secure and private.
As part of cybersecurity awareness month, we’re sharing five new protections to help keep you safe while using Google Messages on Android:
- Enhanced detection protects you from package delivery and job scams. Google Messages is adding new protections against scam texts that may seem harmless at first but can eventually lead to fraud. For Google Messages beta users2, we’re rolling out enhanced scam detection, with improved analysis of scammy texts, starting with a focus on package delivery and job seeking messages. When Google Messages suspects a potential scam text, it will automatically move the message into your spam folder or warn you. Google Messages uses on-device machine learning models to classify these scams, so your conversations stay private and the content is never sent to Google unless you report spam. We’re rolling this enhancement out now to Google Messages beta users who have spam protection enabled.
- Intelligent warnings alert you about potentially dangerous links. In the past year, we’ve been piloting more protections for Google Messages users when they receive text messages with potentially dangerous links. In India, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapo
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