Snapchat-style face filters are now coming to the Google News app

Earlier this month, we discovered face filters in Google Messages, which offer a variety of Snapchat-style filters for photo and video messages. Luckily, we didn’t have to wait long for the feature to be implemented in some capacity.

Google has quietly started rolling out face filters to Google News (source: 9to5Google), and it is accessible via the app’s camera user interface. More specifically, the corresponding icon can be found to the left of the camera shutter button.

The functionality follows our earlier analysis of the app, allowing you to take a photo or record a video with nine filter options. These options include a bunny, dinosaur, basic retouching, and hats. Check out our previously leaked images below.

Unfortunately, it’s not yet widely available. I have the Google Messages beta app on the Play Store and it’s not available for me either. So you might have to wait a bit before it’s available on your phone.

This isn’t the only new feature Google has in store for its texting app. We recently discovered evidence that the company will finally let you send uncompressed images using RCS, on par with Samsung Messages. Fingers crossed that this option will be rolled out soon.