{"id":1012984,"date":"2026-06-08T11:10:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T05:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1012984"},"modified":"2026-06-08T11:10:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T05:40:15","slug":"google-messages-adds-tap-to-draft-for-safer-smart-replies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/08\/google-messages-adds-tap-to-draft-for-safer-smart-replies\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Messages adds \u2018Tap to Draft\u2019 for safer smart replies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has begun rolling out a new behavior for Smart Replies in its Messages app that gives users a crucial extra step before a reply is sent \u2014 a change that could save many Android users from an all-too-familiar moment of embarrassment. As reported by 9to5Goole, the new feature, called &#8220;Tap to draft,&#8221; changes what happens when you tap one of the AI-suggested reply chips that appear above the compose field. Rather than immediately dispatching the message to your contact, the selected reply is now placed into the text box as a draft, where you can review it, edit it, or simply confirm before hitting send.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, tapping a Smart Reply sent it instantly \u2014 a design choice that led some users to disable the feature entirely just to avoid misfires. The new behavior closes that gap by enforcing a deliberate send action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has begun rolling out a new behavior for Smart Replies in its Messages app that gives users a crucial extra step before a reply is sent \u2014 a change that could save many Android users from an all-too-familiar moment of embarrassment. As reported by 9to5Goole, the new feature, called &#8220;Tap to draft,&#8221; changes what happens when you tap one of the AI-suggested reply chips that appear above the compose field. Rather than immediately dispatching the message to your contact, the selected reply is now placed into the text box as a draft, where you can review it, edit it, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1012984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012984","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1012984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1012985,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012984\/revisions\/1012985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1012984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1012984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1012984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}