Having such hi-tech gadgets like smartphones is all about convenience and making our lives more efficient. That being said if you’re an Android user you might want to update to the latest version of Google’s Messenger app as in the latest version, it adds a quick reply feature to it, thus allowing users to reply messages faster.
As you can see in the screenshot above, the quick reply feature does not require the user to launch the app completely. Instead a small window appears in which they are able to type their response and send it right back to the person. Alternatively the window also gives the user a choice of whether they want to launch the app itself.
However it seems that this feature is only for sending messages. If you wish to attach multimedia such as photos, you will need to launch the full app to do so, but like the feature’s name implies, this is for quick replies. This is also limited to the Google Messenger app which is basically where SMS and MMS are stored.
Previously text messages would go into the Hangouts app which only made things more confusing. That being said we have to wonder why such a feature has yet to make its way onto Hangouts, but with Messenger being updated hopefully we will see Hangouts get the same feature too in the future.