Voice Finally Lets You Delete Conversations

Voice Finally Lets you Delete Conversations

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Published 17 Mar 2017

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Earlier in 2017, Google pushed out a surprise update to Voice. Bringing what many thought was an abandoned service, some new life. At the time, it also vowed to not neglect its original Voice service. Less than two months later, it’s making good on its promise. In a posting on the Voice Help Forum, community manager Vanessa outlined several new features that have begun rolling out to users. The most significant change is the overdue ability to delete conversations. To purge your window of a conversation, click the options menu in the top right corner; you’ll see a new Delete option right above Help & feedback. Tap it, and the conversation will be purged forever, just like in Android Messages. Also, you can long press on a thread in the Android app. And archive messages you might need to refer to later.

You can now delete messages in the Voice app.

Do Not Disturb

There’s also a new Do Not Disturb toggle on the Android app that pauses calls and text messages when enabled. However, as explained, To set a timer on Do Not Disturb, you will still need to visit the Voice. You can also disable app notifications for text messages to avoid duplicate alerts exclusively in the Android app. And web users are now making calls right in the browser. Finally, has also added support for Gboard’s GIF image search, so you can bombard your friends with them. You’ll need to have the Gboard keyboard installed on your Android phone for it to work. An iOS update to bring the ability to delete conversations shortly followed. But sought feedback from users about Voice through an online survey.

Talk of the messaging strategy was somewhat scattered, but we are all for Voice updates. The ability to delete conversations is one of those features that should have been there from the very beginning. But we didn’t have to wait long for it.