Samsung Messages Is Shutting Down, but There Are Ways to Keep Using It ...Middle East

This deprecation isn't taking effect immediately, however. According to Samsung's official end of service announcement, the company will discontinue Samsung Messages in July 2026. That means you still have roughly three months to keep using the app, if it happens to be your messaging client of choice. That said, the company is encouraging users to set Google Messages as their default messaging app today to "maintain a consistent messaging experience on Android." Samsung says the app will tell users when service will be discontinued.

It's not like this decision came totally out of the blue. If you've bought a new Samsung Galaxy device in recent years, you'll notice that Samsung Messages didn't come preinstalled. Instead, you had to seek it out and install it yourself from Samsung's Galaxy Store. Samsung says Galaxy S26 devices can't even download the app, and that following its deadline, no devices will be able to download the app.

You can keep using Samsung Messages after the deadline

Not everyone will need to move to Google Messages, however. If you're using an Android device running Android 11 or older, Samsung says you are not affected by this end of service. This will likely impact a small fraction of the Galaxy community, seeing as we're currently on Android 16 (or One UI 8, in Galaxy world). But if you do have an older Android device, you can keep using the app.

That makes sense—Samsung likely doesn't want to deal with a situation where someone tries to contact emergency services on its unsupported app and cannot get help. But what I find even more interesting is that Samsung Messages will also still work when texting emergency contacts. If you've defined someone as an emergency contact on your Galaxy, you'll be able to text them still.

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