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Like it or not, Quick Reply is probably coming to Chrome notifications
July 17, 2025
Back in 2015,Googleintroducedpush notifications for the Chrome web browser, which enables websites to send you messages. Now, it looks like you’ll eventually be able to reply to those notifications directly within the browser.
The new feature isn’t implemented yet, but is instead in a testing phase, according to the Chromium Gerrit as reported byXDA Developers.
Usually, new features show up in the Chromium Gerrit and then get pushed to theCanary build of Chrome. After a successful run in Canary, the features get pushed tothe Chrome beta build, and then finally pushed intothe stable version of Chrome.
Since the testing phase of this feature is so early in the rollout process, it might be a while until we see Quick Reply functionality within Chrome notifications. It’s also possible that the feature will stall out in the testing or later phases, and never make it into Chrome.
However, with push notifications for the web being a popular feature (at least according to how many times a day I’m asked if I want to receive notifications from a website), it’s highly likely that we will eventually see Quick Reply in Chrome.
One of the potential benefits of Quick Reply will be easier online support chats with representatives from various companies. As of right now, if you are in a web-based chat you need to either have your eyes on the window at all times or constantly check the tab for any new messages from your chat partner. With Quick Reply notifications, you could engage in those chats without having to constantly refer back to that tab, which certainly would make life a lot easier.
But, of course, this new feature would also open the floodgates for all kinds of abuse, such as messages from rogue sites that you didn’t mean to approve with one of those “reply STOP to cease transmissions” protocols. Hopefully, Google has some ideas in place for how to curb misuse of this potential Quick Reply feature.
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