If you do manage to make it work, you simply have to tap on the icon, record a video and send it out. The recipient will then be able to watch it on a separate app -- Android Police says it doesn't support in-line playback. That said, version 11 for Android comes with something a lot of people wouldn't appreciate: the company killed conversation merging for the app completely.

Besides these Android updates, Google also doubled the iOS app's video messaging time limit to two minutes in a new update that's now available from iTunes. That's bundled with the ability to kick users out of conversations, which is still a poor replacement for being able to whack people you're talking to with a wet trout.

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