Your guide to Google Messages’ new hidden gestures

One of the most rewarding parts of being a Certified Android Explorer™ is the geeky pleasure that comes with uncovering a hidden shortcut Google snuck somewhere into its smartphone software. One of the most exhausting parts, in contrast, is realizing that Google randomly changed a bunch of the shortcuts you’d found and developed the muscle memory to remember. Here in the land o’ Googley matters, both of those things are constant realities and balancing forces.