At the start of July, AT&T announced that it was changing the default text messaging app for all of its Android phones to Google Messages. With T-Mobile already on board, Verizon was the only major US carrier that was not committed to using Google Messages encrypted RCS solution. That is until now. Verizon is announcing that it has teamed with Google to make Google Messages the default messaging app on Android phones sold by Verizon. Surely, anyone with an Android device on Verizon already had the freedom to download the app from the Play Store and set it as default but making Google...
Source: https://www.gsmarena.com/verizon_officially_makes_google_messages_the_default_messaging_app_for_all_android_phones-news-50148.php
