Google Messages Introduces New Security Features for Enhanced User Protection

Google's latest update aims to tackle spam, scams, and sensitive content with AI-driven tools and improved verification systems.

Google Messages now offers a Sensitive Content Warning feature that blurs images containing nudity, requiring user consent to view.
Enhanced spam detection uses on-device AI to identify and move scam texts, such as fake job offers and package delivery notifications, to the spam folder.
Intelligent link warnings will alert users to potentially dangerous links in messages from unknown senders, expanding globally by the end of the year.
A new feature will allow users to automatically hide messages from unknown international senders, starting with a pilot in Singapore.
Google is developing a contact verification system to confirm the identity of message senders using public key verification, launching next year for Android 9 and above.