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A new APK teardown has revealed many privacy-centric features that could be coming to Google Messages in the future.

Options include showing everything to people you message, just your saved contacts or nobody.

Google Messages

Google Messages could end up playing a much more significant role going forward.

Just in case someone you message wants to find out whos behind the unknown number.

The last thing you want is to publicly broadcast your identity if you didnt intend to.

Google Messages on an Android phone screen

Lets hope that the profile privacy features become publicly available sooner rather than later.

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