Google is engaged on a brand new Pixel app that guarantees to deliver all your messages collectively into one place in your Pixel smartphone, together with WhatsApp.
Fashionable messaging is usually a little bit of a ache, with a number of apps vying in your chatting time. Google’s proposed answer is the Pixel Besties app, and there’s proof that it might incorporate the largest third-party messaging service of all of them.
What’s Pixel Besties?
Android Authority has noticed code within the newest WhatsApp beta (v2.25.3.22, when you’re ) that factors to a brand new content material supplier named Pixel Besties. There are additionally references to a so-called Pixel Relationships app or service throughout the code.
Earlier discoveries throughout the Google Contacts app pin Pixel Besties (previously often called VIPs) as an app that pulls collectively all your interactions with sure frequent contacts into one useful UI.
We’re speaking messages, calls, standing updates, location info and extra.
The sooner Google Contact discovery uncovered a widget that might floor all this contact info on your private home display screen.
What does it need to do with WhatsApp?
With this newest point out of Pixel Besties within the WhatsApp app, it appears sure that WhatsApp assist has been sought and bought by Google.
It ought to imply that you just’ll have the ability to entry your WhatsApp chats (in some restricted capability no less than) from inside a brand new central Google app.
As for a timeline on this new Pixel Besties characteristic, the supply anticipates that it might roll out as a part of the following Pixel Quarterly Platform Launch (QPR) replace for the Pixel 9 collection and earlier.
Presumably, WhatsApp will prepared the ground, together with Google’s personal Messages app, however we’d count on Meta Messenger to be shut behind. In any case, WhatsApp is owned by the identical firm, so there’s clearly a willingness to work collectively on messaging integration.
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