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- Names of unknown people who contact you could start showing in Google Messages notifications.
- For this feature to work, those people will need to have profile discovery enabled and have the number linked to their Google account.
- Google is working on allowing users to enable or disable profile discovery within Messages.
Wish you could know who that unknown sender who just contacted you out of the blue is? Google appears to be working on a feature for Messages that will tell you that person’s name in the text message notification you receive.
While looking through the latest beta version of Google Messages (messages.android_20240506_01_RC00.phone_samsung_openbeta_dynamic), we discovered a change to the notification you receive whenever you get a new message. If you get a text from a number that’s not saved in your contacts list and they have profile discovery enabled, that notification will include the sender’s name. You can see an example in the picture below.