New Google Pixel Update Lets Companies Save Your Work Chats

The point is to help organizations comply with legal inquiries and regulations, but if you're using your company device for personal matters, you may want to consider moving away from Google Messages.

Google has enabled RCS message archival for fully managed Google Pixel devices. This allows organizations to capture and store encrypted communications, helping them comply with laws and respond to legal inquiries. So if you're using Google Messages for personal matters on your company device, you may want to reconsider.

The feature works by letting third-party archival apps integrate directly with Google Messages, notifying them whenever an RCS message is sent, received, edited, or deleted on a work device.

Unlike older carrier-level logging systems that break with encrypted messaging, this solution captures message data on the device itself while maintaining end-to-end encryption in transit. The archival app then reads the message content and makes it available to ...