How to send and receive Google Messages from your computer Before you can send and receive text messages from your computer, you must install the Google Messages app.

The Google Messages web app isn't as fully featured as the WhatsApp one—you can't select multiple conversations at once, for example, or filter messages—but there's still a lot that you can do.

Google Messages has finally added direct reply to its web version. The feature has been long-awaited by users and brings more convenience and efficiency to the web app.

Messages' web version now allows users to quote a certain message when replying to it, like many of the top messaging apps such as Facebook Messenger and Slack.

You can hunt all you like, but there is no app for Google Messages on Windows. There are workarounds, but they all drive me nuts.

Meta provides you with multiple options to reply to a specific message on Instagram. Here's how you can do it on Android, iOS, and Desktop Web Browser.

Google Messages on the web rarely gets updated, but a recent addition lets you directly reply to RCS chats like on Android. Update 7/20: The Google Messages app on Android tablets is just messages ...

Google Messages is finally catching up with other chat apps with a new way to directly reply to RCS messages — check out replies in action!