{"id":485614,"date":"2026-06-06T04:20:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T04:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/485614\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T04:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T04:20:12","slug":"google-messages-rolls-out-tap-to-draft-for-smart-replies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/485614\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Messages rolls out Tap to draft for Smart Replies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t<img width=\"1600\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/google-messages-galaxy-s26-.jpg\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"\"  decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2026\/03\/07\/google-messages-tap-to-draft\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">testing in March<\/a>, Google Messages is now rolling out a new \u201cTap to draft\u201d behavior for Smart Replies that helps prevent accidental sends.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Previously, tapping on a Smart Reply above the compose field would immediately send it. Some users disabled the feature entirely to prevent accidentally sending a message.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Google is now addressing that with \u201cTap to draft\u201d where picking a Smart Reply adds it to the text box. As such, you have to manually press the send button, with the ability to make further edits before doing so.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"531\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_image wp-image-707486\" data-id=\"707486\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Google-Messages-Tap-to-Draft-2.jpg\"  \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"531\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_image wp-image-707485\" data-id=\"707485\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Google-Messages-Tap-to-Draft-3.jpg\"  \/><a class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_button-prev swiper-button-prev swiper-button-white\" role=\"button\"\/><a class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_button-next swiper-button-next swiper-button-white\" role=\"button\"\/><a aria-label=\"Pause Slideshow\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_button-pause\" role=\"button\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You have to enable Tap to draft by going to Settings &gt; Suggestions &amp; Actions (which was renamed in recent weeks) for the new \u201cSuggestions\u201d menu at the top. At launch, the default behavior remains \u201cTap to send.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\tAdvertisement &#8211; scroll for more content<\/p>\n<p>Tap to draft: Create a message draft<\/p>\n<p>Tap to send: Send directly to the chat<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We\u2019re seeing this nice quality-of-life improvement rolled out with the <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.google.android.apps.messaging\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">latest stable version<\/a> (20260522_00_RC00) of Google Messages for Android.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-wp-class--hide=\"state.isContentHidden\" data-wp-class--show=\"state.isContentVisible\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-on--load=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on--pointerdown=\"actions.preloadImage\" data-wp-on--pointerenter=\"actions.preloadImageWithDelay\" data-wp-on--pointerleave=\"actions.cancelPreload\" data-wp-on-window--resize=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\"  alt=\"\" data-height=\"2424\" data-id=\"717335\" data-link=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/?attachment_id=717335\" data-url=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/06\/Google-Messages-tap-to-draft-1.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=456\" data-width=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Google-Messages-tap-to-draft-1.jpg\" data-amp-layout=\"responsive\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" data-wp-class--hide=\"state.isContentHidden\" data-wp-class--show=\"state.isContentVisible\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-on--load=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on--pointerdown=\"actions.preloadImage\" data-wp-on--pointerenter=\"actions.preloadImageWithDelay\" data-wp-on--pointerleave=\"actions.cancelPreload\" data-wp-on-window--resize=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\"  alt=\"\" data-height=\"2424\" data-id=\"717334\" data-link=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/?attachment_id=717334\" data-url=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/06\/Google-Messages-tap-to-draft-2.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=456\" data-width=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Google-Messages-tap-to-draft-2.jpg\" data-amp-layout=\"responsive\"\/><\/p>\n<p>More on Google Messages:<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/9to5google.com\" aria-label=\"Add 9to5Google as a preferred source on Google\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"google-preferred-source-badge-dark\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/google-preferred-source-badge-dark.png\" alt=\"Add 9to5Google as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"google-preferred-source-badge-light\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google-preferred-source-badge-light.png\" alt=\"Add 9to5Google as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"disclaimer-affiliate\">FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/about\/#affiliate\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After testing in March, Google Messages is now rolling out a new \u201cTap to draft\u201d behavior for Smart&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,80],"class_list":["post-485614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}