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Google Messages could soon allow unsending your drunk RCS texts
Delete for yourself and the recipients
Communication tech has advanced and most of the best chat apps on Android now allow you to take back words by unsending or deleting messages. Meanwhile, SMS is still stuck in a time when your messages have the finality of a handwritten letter sent by post. The RCS protocol has so far done the impossible for SMS, allowing interoperability between iPhone and Android, and now it could enable message deletion too.
