A nice quality of life improvement to Google Messages for Android adds group chat search to the New conversation page.
Previously, the “To” field in Start chat > New conversation would only surface individual contacts.
There is now a “Group chats” section that will search those multi-contact conversations. It queries group names and participants. The preview simply shows the last sent message, with a chevron taking you to the chat.
Group search on this page is being tested with the latest Google Message beta (version 20240820_00_RC00). It’s not yet available in the stable channel.
Old vs. new
The last update to this screen in October of 2023 removed the “Top contacts” section, while the conversation picker/share UI was updated a few weeks ago.
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