Google Messages loses reply reminders and birthday options

The “Nudges” function was quietly added to Google Messages a few years again, and it was truthfully fairly useful. It will provide you with a pleasant reminder should you had messages you forgot to answer, or had conversations within the app which may want a follow-up. Additionally, should you’re not nice at remembering dates, like birthdays, there have been notifications that will aid you with that too.

Nonetheless, as the parents over at 9to5Google observed, the “Nudges” function has instantly vanished from the most recent secure and beta variations of Google Messages (v20240429_01_RC00). It’s kind of of a shock because it was nonetheless featured as lately because the earlier secure app construct. This functionality might be beforehand present in Settings > Ideas, which now solely contains the Sensible Reply, Magic Compose, Urged stickers, and likewise Ideas, however with “Nudges” now not showing within the sub-menu.

Google hasn’t given a transparent motive for ditching the function, and it’s nonetheless listed on Google Messages’ help web page, additional including to the thriller. Possibly Google has one thing higher up its sleeve, however till then, this sudden disappearance leaves us a bit perplexed.

Hopefully, this will probably be addressed later this month throughout Google I/O, the place we will perhaps hear about one other function that will function a alternative for “Nudges.” With AI taking on lots of most of these options, it is a chance that an AI-powered will probably be unveiled as an alternative. This appears to be the case with Gmail and just about all of the functions below the Google Workspace umbrella, the place AI options are seemingly taking on to boost productiveness. We are going to simply have to attend and see what occurs in Mountain View in a few weeks’ time.