- After laying the groundwork over the past few weeks, Google Messages looks ready to introduce custom chat themes.
- In addition to setting chat color palettes, you’ll also be able to select your choice of background art.
- Messages will provide several galleries of wallpaper options, or you can choose your own pic.
Google Messages has been working on a new way to give your chats a bit more of a personalized feel. Going back a little over a month now, we’ve been tracking Google’s progress towards bringing customized themes to your conversations, even letting you set your own background wallpaper. And now in Google’s latest beta, it looks like this new tool is finally ready to roll out.
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We’re looking at version messages.android_20260523_00_RC00.phone.openbeta_dynamic of the Messages app. Once Google flips the changes present in this release live, users will see the “Change colors” option in their chats’ overflow menu replaced by a new “Chat themes” entry:
