Google’s had a messy relationship with messaging, with now-defunct platforms like Hangouts and Allo failing to achieve the kind of relevance and staying power enjoyed by competing services like iMessage and WhatsApp. In recent years, though, the company has consistently thrown its weight behind its RCS and SMS client Google Messages, which has seen regular updates and feature additions and become Android’s default messaging app.We saw last week that Google’s working on another pretty substantial update to Messages: more in-depth customization, allowing users to build custom chat themes similarly to the soon-to-be-retired Samsung Messages app. It’s another in a line of pretty substantial improvements Google’s chat app has seen lately — but there are still improvements Messages could make. Here are five features Google Messages should adopt.