I'd much more prefer Apple to just finally implement RCS on iPhones, which would give Android and iOS users a universal, internet-based standard to communicate over rather than relying on the ancient SMS protocol. While the implementation of iMessage reactions is more than welcome and helps cut back on the noise, it feels incredibly tacked on and hacky when you know how it works. Similarly, the laugh reaction is replaced with the laughing face emoji.
When tapping and holding reactions for details, Google basically says as much: "Translated from iPhone." That's the case for the heart emoji, which becomes the love eyes reaction. In the app code, there's a string called "ios_reactions_mapping," which helps correctly transliterate messages. Messages and iMessage use different sets of emoji for their implementations of reactions, which could lead to problems, but Google is accounting for that. That way, an SMS called "Liked " can be displayed as a like on the respective text instead. Since iMessage replies are, in essence, just SMS messages rendered differently by the iMessage client, Google is able to give Messages similar capabilities. None of the usual " liked your message" texts will show up in your chat history, and Google's solution even accounts for iPhone users switching out one reaction for another, which is impressive. On the surface, you won't be able to tell the difference between these "translated" reactions and RCS messages. And now, Google has started to roll out the feature widely to people using the beta version of Messages. The rest of us will get overly descriptive automated text messages like " liked " and such, quickly polluting otherwise clean group chats and pestering you with individual notifications for each reaction.Īs spotted by 9to5Google, this is now a thing of the past: Google Messages has started to display iMessage reactions like they're supposed to look like.Īn app teardown of the latest Messages beta ( version 10.7) initially revealed that Google was working on an option to properly display iMessage reactions.
iMessage allows users to react to regular SMS messages with emoji and likes, but those will only be displayed correctly for recipients also using iMessage. Google Messages received iMessage-like reactions for RCS chats in 2020, but the solution is unsatisfactory for anyone who regularly converses with iPhone-wielding friends and family.
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