Peace in group chat: Google Messages to hide text messages from blocked contacts

Google Messages is one of the most popular messaging apps in the world, with over 1 billion monthly active users. To satisfy its users, the technology giant regularly adds new features to the application. Now, it looks like it’s preparing to introduce a small but useful feature: preventing messages from blocked contacts from appearing anywhere in the app.

Google Messages to hide messages from blocked contacts in group chats

As you can see from the attached screenshots, if you have blocked contacts in a group chat, you will also receive a pop-up notification informing you that you might miss some messages because the chat includes blocked contacts.

Previously, blocked contacts could not text the user in one-on-one chats, but their messages were still visible in group chats. So if you block someone, you won’t see their messages in the group chat. But oddly enough, blocked contacts can still see your messages in the group chat. This is how it works for now.