Google is testing a new improvement to its Messages app. A possibility for the moment only available in the beta accessible from the Google Play Store and which allows you to see and respond to reactions in the same way seen from an iPhone.
So far, when we get an emoji-shaped message from an iPhone, or a reaction to a message, on Android phones, it shows up in text format. With this improvement, this response appears similarly, represented by an emoji
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The Google Messages beta app can be tested from this link and has a few features that will reach the global version later. In the latest version, 10.7, they discovered in code how the application would allow manage incoming reactions to SMS sent from the iOS messaging application. An option that is already starting to be tested with some users.
Google Messages becomes able to detect incoming reactions when they have been sent from an iPhone and instead of displaying them as text, it happens to display them as an “emoji”. The image below these lines shows what they look like today.
What Google has done is make posts able to map and match some of iMessage’s reactions to that match what is available through
With this improvement, if, for example, they like a message, we will see it represented by its respective emoji represented in the upper right corner of the message, the same way it appears in the Messages app on an iPhone. So far, these reactions are represented as text.
At this time, testing is limited, so despite the beta, server-side activation may be required. After testing in the beta, we will have to wait until they reach the version that all users can try.
