Peace in the group chat: Google Messages to hide texts from blocked contacts

Google Messages is one of the world’s most popular messaging apps, boasting over 1 billion monthly active users. To keep its users happy, the tech giant regularly adds new features to the app. Now, it seems it is getting ready to introduce a small but useful feature: preventing blocked contacts’ messages from showing up anywhere in the app.

Google Messages to hide messages from blocked contacts in group chats

As you can see in the attached screenshots, if you’ve blocked contacts in a group chat, you’ll also get a pop-up notification letting you know that you might miss some messages because the chat includes blocked contacts.

Before, blocked contacts couldn’t send texts to the user in one-on-one chats, but their messages were still visible in group chats. So, if you block someone, you won’t see their messages in the group chat. But, weirdly enough, blocked contacts can still see your messages in the group chat. That’s just how it works for now.