News Summary

• Google Messages users have spotted a bug that’s randomly deleting old and new chats.
• Users in the r/GoogleMessages forum are sharing their experiences with disappearing chats.
• One user noticed ‘huge chunks of messages’ going missing from chats, while others have reported seeing entire conversations disappear.
• Users have linked it to the shutting down of Samsung Messages which is now entering its phase-out stage, forcing users over to Google's chat service.
• Google product expert shared that the ‘vanishing’ of messages during this transition is often a sync and re-indexing delay rather than a permanent deletion.