If you’re a Google Messages user on Android, you can use Remix to edit images on the fly for all MMS recipients. Powered by Gemini AI, it lets you remix photos from the gallery, camera, or anything in the chat window. What looks like an ordinary photo edit is a recipe for spontaneous in-chat fun with plenty of practical uses.
Remix is a Gemini-powered feature inside Google Messages that lets you grab any photo from your phone or right there in the chat window and turn it into a live canvas. I’ve just started using it to trade edits with close friends. It feels like a good AI feature since you don’t have to download anything. Everything stays within the chat window.
To work with Remix, open any chat window on the Google Messages app. If it’s your first time using this feature, you will see a prompt to Remix your photos. Click Continue to move to an editing area. For future edits within any chat window, you will only see a “Remix” icon that looks like a banana.
Remix works on the same standalone Gemini algorithm as Nano Banana, which is mainly used with Google Lens. Once inside the image editing window, describe the changes you need using a text prompt. Make sure your RCS chats are active in Google Messages (see the last section).
As soon as you tap Done, the edited image is automatically inserted within the original chat window. For this example, I dictated a simple logo change on the wall. The final edit can easily develop into a conversation with one recipient or a group chat for several Google Messages users.
Google began introducing Remix within its messaging app in November 2025 as part of Google’s Pixel Feature Drop. Currently, the feature is available in seven countries including the United States, with more rollouts underway elsewhere.
I started enjoying Remix simply because of how fast it is. Other AI apps force you to download images to your phone or the cloud first. That’s slow and kills the vibe for recipients. But when both sides use Remix in Google Messages, it instantly turns into a quick messaging collaboration platform.
Such quick collaboration has many uses. Event stylists and party planners can use Remix to suggest a logo change on walls, as shown below. If you have friends who do group shopping, the Remix canvas becomes one shared spot to exchange real photos and ideas. Families can spend hours doodling their AI ideas for the perfect travel spot. Remote workers can use it to exchange data in real time.
A great personal benefit I see with this feature is that it will help save me a lot of time dealing with repair technicians. Whether it’s a broken AC grille or a laptop motherboard, I look forward to sending fast visual explanations. Need a specific hard disk model? Just slap it on the motherboard pic and check its availability.
I might also turn to Remix if I lose a valuable object. Supposing it’s a wallet at a venue, I can add red circles and arrows in real time pointing to exactly where I may have dropped it. If you’re looking for a rental apartment or a studio, you can place your requirements such as inserting a missing electronic appliance in the premise.
The only limitation with Remix is that it should comply with the copyrighted images recommendations as per Gemini’s policies.
In the past, I wasn’t a heavy Google Messages user, mainly because I incorrectly thought my texts and one-time passwords went to Google Cloud. Actually, Google doesn’t store your SMS on any server; conversations are fully end-to-end encrypted with RCS when “both sides support it.”
You can always ask your recipient to send you a screenshot of RCS activated on their Google Messages account. It is enabled by default and can be accessed from anyone’s user profile icon -> Messages settings -> General. Here, Turn on RCS Chats should be toggled on.
With other apps like Apple or Samsung Messages, it falls back to unencrypted plain text SMS/MMS that can theoretically be intercepted. However, if it’s just simple photos or casual suggestions, I see no issue using Remix with other users.
It’s worth knowing that Google Messages is one of the few apps that gives you modern features plus real end-to-end encryption (RCS). Your chats are not pushed to the cloud unless you deliberately turn on the optional backup. That actually makes it less tied to a corporate account than iMessage (which constantly phones home metadata to your Apple ID) or WhatsApp (owned by Meta).
Because of privacy benefits, many users are quietly switching to Google Messages for SMS communication. Clearly, the old “everything goes to Google” fear is outdated in this scenario. In summary, if both sides use Google Messages, you get one of the most secure SMS/MMS communications possible today.
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