The “Reply” function is missing from Google Messages notifications

For years, we’ve been able to quickly reply to messages through Google Messages notifications. It eliminates you having to open the app and tap on the text field just to reply to a message. However, a feature is only useful if it works, and it appears that this might not be the case. Some users are reporting that the reply feature is missing from Google Messages notifications.

Google Messages is missing the reply function in the notifications

This was first reported by a Reddit user who posted a screenshot. We see that, for some reason, the space next to the Mark as read button is empty. Right now, we’re not quite sure how widespread this issue is. Another user posted the same issue in the help center for Google Messages. So this is not an isolated incident. However, we were not able to replicate the issue here at Android Headlines, and the same goes for the folks at 9To5Google.

According to the reports, both users mentioned using the most up-to-date version of Google Messages, which was updated on January 18th. The second report states that the user is using the most up-to-date version of Android running on their pixel 6a. So it appears that this issue could be a temporary bug that Google just needs to fix up. If more reports of this issue hit the surface, it should hopefully get Google’s attention.

In other Google Messages news, image captioning is on its way

We recently got a leak of a new feature potentially coming to Google Messages. This will eventually allow you to post captions to images that you send to other people. Instead of sending text and images as separate messages, this feature will allow people to send them both in one message.

This is one of the many benefits of RCS technology, and it’s certain to make using the platform much better. At this point, we’re not sure when Google is going to release this feature.