Android Authority highlights eight Google Messages features one writer turned off after a weeklong test

Android Authority published an article on Sep. 28 titled “I turned off these 8 Google Messages features, and the app is so much better now”.

In the piece, the writer says they spent a week with certain Google Messages features disabled and found that the app felt less chaotic and less demanding, writing that their “phone’s screen stopped looking chaotic” and that notifications “felt less demanding” after the change.

A first-person list of settings changes

The article presents itself as a first-person account of personal preferences and reactions. It says the writer turned off eight Google Messages features and is “not switching them back on anytime soon,” framing the adjustments as choices that suited the author’s own experience with the app.

Android Authority’s X account also shared a link to the story with the same headline in a post on X.