Google Chat is just now getting a feature Teams and Slack have had for years

Google Chat is finally getting message forwarding. Starting this week, Chat users will see a new “Forward message” option in message action lists. Google’s also built in some clever protections to make sure you don’t accidentally share info with the wrong people.

In a blog post this week, Google outlined the new option. It appears when you click the three dots that appear when you click individual messages, just above the option to copy a link to that message.