What’s changing
Oftentimes Google Chat conversations cover a wide variety of topics in a short period of time, causing you to potentially lose the context of a Chat sent earlier in the message stream.
To improve your web and mobile Chat experience in scenarios such as this, we’re introducing a feature that allows you to quote a previous message when sending a reply in a direct message, group message, or space (if configured with in-line threading).
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Who’s impacted
End users
Why you’d use it
This feature helps provide context to a message response by allowing you to directly reference a previous message. People may use message quoting when they want their response to show up in the main message stream, compared to in-line threading, where message responses are shown in a separate thread.
Getting started
- Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.
- End users: When you quote a message, the quote itself is a link that returns to the original message that was quoted. Visit the Help Center to learn more about quoting a message in your reply.
Rollout pace
- Rapid Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on May 4, 2023
- Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on May 18, 2023
Availability
- Available to all Google Workspace customers, as well as legacy G Suite Basic and Business customers
- Available to users with personal Google Accounts