ZDNET's key takeaways Google Messages now lets you delete a sent text message. A deleted message disappears for the other person immediately. The feature is available now for almost all Android users.

More than three years after Apple added the Undo Send feature in iOS 16, Google Messages is gaining the ability to unsend texts on Android.

After seeing it in testing earlier this year, Google Messages has widely deployed the ability to delete RCS messages from recipients' devices.