{"id":1001791,"date":"2026-04-09T07:18:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T01:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1001791"},"modified":"2026-04-09T07:30:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T02:00:14","slug":"samsung-is-discontinuing-its-texting-app-tells-impacted-users-to-switch-to-google-messages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/09\/samsung-is-discontinuing-its-texting-app-tells-impacted-users-to-switch-to-google-messages\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung is discontinuing its texting app, tells impacted users to switch to Google Messages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK: Samsung is saying goodbye to its namesake texting app. <\/p>\n<p>According to an end of service announcement published on the tech giant&#8217;s U.S. support website, Samsung Messages will be discontinued in July. Impacted owners of Samsung smartphones and other gadgets are being asked to switch to Google Messages in the meantime, &#8220;to maintain a consistent messaging experience on Android.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK: Samsung is saying goodbye to its namesake texting app. According to an end of service announcement published on the tech giant&#8217;s U.S. support website, Samsung Messages will be discontinued in July. Impacted owners of Samsung smartphones and other gadgets are being asked to switch to Google Messages in the meantime, &#8220;to maintain a consistent messaging experience on Android.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}