Here is how remote uninstallation will work in Google Play Store

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-o6u4KLPUnaQ/ZX7HCAeIPtI/AAAAAAAAZSE/FH515mkUDe413RFyk8yfxdDY6WaoIuDVgCNcBGAsYHQ/s1600/IMG_ORG_1702807239294.png" imageanchor="1"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1200" height="266" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-o6u4KLPUnaQ/ZX7HCAeIPtI/AAAAAAAAZSE/FH515mkUDe413RFyk8yfxdDY6WaoIuDVgCNcBGAsYHQ/s1600/IMG_ORG_1702807239294.png" width="400"></a></div><p>I have spotted this feature <a href="https://t.me/GappsLeaks/146?single" title="">back in September</a> when Google added a bunch of flags about it. There was not much information about it at that time but in a November Google Play System Update changelog, Google mentioned that it will roll out with Play Store with version 38.3, unfortunately that didn't happen. Google again mentioned about this feature in the changelog of December Google Play System and is now supposed to roll out with version 38.8 of Play Store. I didn't have any luck enabling the feature when I initially found it but with Play Store 38.8, it is now partially working for me after flipping a few flags. So how's it going to work? I haven't seen any other reports about anyone spotting it the wild, so my guess is that it's either limited to very few people now or even if it's rolled out to many people, they will not find it easily.<br></p><p>Just like you can install apps on your connected devices such as your other Android Phone, WearOS, TV, Android Auto and PC, you will be able to remotely uninstall them as well, but it's will not be as easy as installing them. Once available, you will find this feature inside the "Manage" tab which is inside the "Manage apps & devices" page. On the manage tab you have to tap on "✓ This device" and bottom sheet will appear listing all your connected devices, which is kinda same as what you see in the install dialog when you remotely install an app to choose your device. Tapping on any of your device name will fetch the list of all installed user (and some system) apps from that specific device. Here you can tap on the checkbox to select multiple apps or a single app, on selection a delete icon will appear on top right. Tapping on that delete icon will show a popup telling you "1 app will be uninstalled from your (device name)". Here you can either tap on <b>cancel</b> or <b>uninstall. </b>The app will be uninstalled from your other device.<br>Here are a few screenshots of the process - </p><table align="center"> <tbody> <tr><td><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-SHrQLyDGPBY/ZX7F8lEwJuI/AAAAAAAAZQo/k3c1UArFKbsDvyFrdm6xdSrwVgSvurZIgCNcBGAsYHQ/s1600/IMG_ORG_1702806801138.png" imageanchor="1"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="1879" data-original-width="1057" height="400" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-SHrQLyDGPBY/ZX7F8lEwJuI/AAAAAAAAZQo/k3c1UArFKbsDvyFrdm6xdSrwVgSvurZIgCNcBGAsYHQ/s1600/IMG_ORG_1702806801138.png" width="225"></a></td><td><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-cnSYMQhniNo/ZX7F90v9ECI/AAAAAAAAZQs/y0KVOXrl1FEunSNvA0VNOXx3GKbUxa8IgCNcBGAsYHQ/s1600/IMG_ORG_1702806801080.png" imageanchor="1"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="1879" data-original-width="1057" height="400" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-cnSYMQhniNo/ZX7F90v9ECI/AAAAAAAAZQs/y0KVOXrl1FEunSNvA0VNOXx3GKbUxa8IgCNcBGAsYHQ/s1600/IMG_ORG_1702806801080.png" width="225"></a></td><td><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-i8dl_Pbu8E0/ZX7F-0ALroI/AAAAAAAAZQw/6u70LFI_StYBEAMFkz5770PdMlv3M9EfwCNcBGAsYHQ/s1600/IMG_ORG_1702806800976.png" imageanchor="1"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="1879" data-original-width="1057" height="400" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-i8dl_Pbu8E0/ZX7F-0ALroI/AAAAAAAAZQw/6u70LFI_StYBEAMFkz5770PdMlv3M9EfwCNcBGAsYHQ/s1600/IMG_ORG_1702806800976.png" width="225"></a></td> </tr> </tbody></table><p>One more thing to note that you can sort your apps by name and size. Sorting by size will definitely help you get rid of apps consuming space on your other devices easily. There are other few things that I want to mention here. The app list which Play Store fetches from my other device was not complete. It was the mix of system apps and user apps. System apps were the one which has updates installed, most of them were Google apps. Not all user apps were there, a lot of them were missing, such as I have Instagram installed on other device but it was not in the list. </p><p>So I guess this was either a bug or maybe the app was not installed from the Play Store. I am not really sure what's the actual issue here but we will find about it once more users get this feature. According to the Google Play System Update changelog this feature will be available on Phones, Wear, TV, Android Auto and PC.</p><p>For more much Google app's feature leaks you can join my telegram channel - <a href="https://t.me/GappsLeaks" title="">Gapps Flags & Leaks</a> or follow me on <a href="https://x.com/AssembleDebug" title="">Twitter/X</a></p>

Here is how remote uninstallation will work in Google Play Store

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Google is working on message editing feature in Google Messages

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-sQuw7r9D3b8/ZXbzDgfpMkI/AAAAAAAAY5c/0xjxoDzelBIh4GwpjRkPk3E0fWjtkyEaACNcBGAsYHQ/s1600/IMG_ORG_1702294269246.jpeg" imageanchor="1"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1200" height="266" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-sQuw7r9D3b8/ZXbzDgfpMkI/AAAAAAAAY5c/0xjxoDzelBIh4GwpjRkPk3E0fWjtkyEaACNcBGAsYHQ/s1600/IMG_ORG_1702294269246.jpeg" width="400"></a></div><p><br>Google Message team is busy adding a lot of new features in the Google Message lately to make it more appealing for RCS users and providing features which we usually see in Telegram and WhatsApp. Photomoji, screen effects, noise cancellation for audio messages and animated stickers were a few which Google released for beta users recently. Now Google is also working on another feature which users requests and need a lot - message editing.</p><p>Google has added some flags for this in the beta version of Google Messages which hints that message editing feature could be real. The flags were added in the beta releases which released in the last week of November. I also did some digging of the Google Message apk and found some codes that give some hints about the message editing feature.</p><p>There were four flags added for this - </p><blockquote><b>bugle.enable_edit_ui<br></b><b>bugle.load_edit_history<br></b><b>bugle.process_outgoing_edits<br></b><b>bugle.process_incoming_edits</b></blockquote> <p>The first flag indicate toward enabling a editing UI for a message which we want to edit. The second flag is about loading the edit history of messages from the message database. The third one seems about processing the edited message once a user edits it and the fourth flag indicating the processing of the edited message for the user who is receiving it. Unfortunately, enabling these flags does nothing for now because this feature is still a work in progress.</p><p>Above was the flag part and let's come to the apk digging part which I did to find some stuff and tried to make some sense out of it. Personally I am not a coder, so I don't understand every part of the process. It would be even difficult for a coder to make total sense of how it works because the Google apps are heavily obfuscated. So here is the image of code - </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-xxF3utlxtWc/ZXbssafYfiI/AAAAAAAAY5U/M7Nrn69lXEwzLM8_lA4p1uBqzSrLOS8KACNcBGAsYHQ/s1600/IMG_ORG_1702291876005.png" imageanchor="1"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="646" data-original-width="2299" height="179" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-xxF3utlxtWc/ZXbssafYfiI/AAAAAAAAY5U/M7Nrn69lXEwzLM8_lA4p1uBqzSrLOS8KACNcBGAsYHQ/s1600/IMG_ORG_1702291876005.png" width="640"></a></div><p>This code is about a table creation in the Google Messages database file. The database file is called <b>bugle_db</b> which can be accessed if you have root. The said code creates a new table named <b>message_edits</b> in the database. This table contains columns <b>message_id</b>, <b>latest_message_id</b>, <b>original_rcs_messages_id </b>and there are two other columns which are added from some other code in this table - <b>edited_at_timestamp_ms </b>and <b>received_at_timestamp_ms</b>. So this table is probably where Google Message is going to store details of the messages you edit and process them for you and the other users. As far as I know, message editing is not a part of RCS standard by default. End to End Encryption was also not a part of it but Google did it anyway. Its possible that message editing may be added in RCS standard because it is kind of works the same way as message reactions. So having it is not going to be difficult part. Apple also joined the RCS wandwagon and said to work along with Google to work on RCS. </p><p>I have done decompilation of more Google Message apks to check when all this code was added. All this code was added in a beta build of Nov 19. So it's new and shouldn't be mistaken for any old code. As I mentioned earlier, this feature doesn't work for now even after enabling flags because Google is still working on it. So we have to wait a few more weeks to see it in action and also for any Google announcement about it.</p> <p>For more such information/feature leaks about Google apps, you can join my telegram channel <a href="https://t.me/GappsLeaks" title="">Gapps Flags and Leaks</a> and <a href="https://t.me/GappsLeaksChat" title="">group</a> to discuss about it. You can follow me on <a href="https://x.com/AssembleDebug" title="">twitter/x</a> as well ;)</p>

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How to force enable new features in Google Messages beta without root

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-uwY8_QlGDQI/ZWxw_DkVMvI/AAAAAAAAYrI/juld2b5uf7YkFe6oWy2zR-Zs-fYw0JdwgCNcBGAsYHQ/s1600/IMG_ORG_1701605608990.png" imageanchor="1"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1200" height="266" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-uwY8_QlGDQI/ZWxw_DkVMvI/AAAAAAAAYrI/juld2b5uf7YkFe6oWy2zR-Zs-fYw0JdwgCNcBGAsYHQ/s1600/IMG_ORG_1701605608990.png" width="400"></a></div><p>Google has been lately adding some new features in Google Messages such as redesigned chat bar, profile UI, noise cancellation, photomoji, screen effects, voice moods and animated reactions. Some of these features are already rolling for beta testers. But being a beta tester doesn't mean you will get the features instantly available for you.<br></p><p>The other method of getting such new features quickly is having a rooted device so you can enable flags with apps like GappsMod and GMS Flags. But there a way to get new features working instantly on unrooted devices as well. In this post I am going to explain how you can do it. </p><p>Some of you are probably aware that Google Messages has a separate build for samsung specific devices. Luckily Google has enabled a feature in it which we can use to enable the flags for new features which are added in beta versions. This things is not available in the normal Google Messages beta version which you install on devices other than samsung. I am not sure since how long it's been like this and if it's something intentional from Google. But anyway, who cares, time to spill the beans, thanks to <a href="https://x.com/LinkofHyrule89" title="">Mathew Garbett</a> for tipping and @user_ams007 on discord for initially spotting the change.</p><h3 style="text-align: left;">• Things needed </h3>1. Google Messages beta, samsung specific apk (<a href="https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/messenger-google-inc/messenger-google-inc-20231128_01_rc00-release/" title="">Apkmirror</a>). Samsung specific messages have <b>samsung_openbeta_dynamic</b> in the end of package name.<br>2. Working brain and I will not list all feature flags here. Trust me, its more fun when you will explore it yourself. <h3 style="text-align: left;">• Instructions</h3><div><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>Install the latest Google Messages beta apk from apkmirror which should have "<b>samsung_openbeta_dynamic</b>" in it's package name.</li><li>Open the Messages app and tap on the search icon.</li><li>Type *<b>xyzzy* </b>and press enter/search on keyboard (whole string along with stars). Once you press enter you will see a toast indicating that debug menu has been enabled.</li><li>Now tap on the profile picture menu and you will see a <b>"Debug"</b> option. </li><li>Now after tapping the Debug option you will see a list of option appear. Now tap on the "<b>Values" </b>and then on <b>"Auto-ramp Overrides/Gservice keys..."</b></li><li>You will see all the feature flags available in Google Messages beta version with which you can mess around.</li></ol></div><div>Thats all. Some of you may not like the OneUI style header but we cannot do anything about it. You also have to rely on Apkmirror to sideload this specific Google Messages version whenever someone uploads it. One more thing to note here is that not all the feature flags will work because some of these are work in progress and some depends on a few files which needs to be downloaded by Google Messages. For example, if you enable the photomoji through this debug menu, you will have to wait some hours maybe before it shows up in your reaction list, this is because Google Messages downloads some files to make it work.</div><div><br></div><div>If you have any issues or questions regarding this method or want to ask for flags, you can join my telegram channel <a href="https://t.me/GappsLeaks" title="">Gapps Flags and Leaks</a> and <a href="https://t.me/GappsLeaksChat" title="">group</a> to discuss about it. You can follow me on <a href="https://x.com/AssembleDebug" title="">twitter/x</a> as well ;)</div>

How to force enable new features in Google Messages beta without root

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