Google has announced three new features headed to Google Messages, including custom icons for group chats, notification snoozing, and RCS tags for contacts.

The icons are small, so you’ll need to look closely to see if the other party read the message or not. Note: You’ll need to be sending an RCS message for read receipts to become available.

Alphabet Inc.’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google Messages has removed the icon indicating the lack of end-to-end encryption (E2EE) in RCS chats with Apple Inc.’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone users.

As of last week, Google Messages indicated that Android-iPhone RCS conversations don’t support end-to-end encryption with a lock icon that features a slash. This is because Google Messages uses ...