Google Messages app finally gets emoji reaction feature – Android Headlines

In a continuous effort to optimize the Google Message application, Google has now introduced a new emoji reaction feature to it. The brand has been adding features like emoji reactions to messages, theme options, and screen effects to the app lately. The new emoji reaction feature not only enhances the overall user experience but also improves user conversation.

Telegram-like Emoji reaction is now available on Google Messages

The cool-looking emoji reaction is one of the most popular features of Telegram, and it is now available on Google Messages as well. The competitor Apple’s iMessage already had it for a long time. First reported by 9to5Google, the new feature will add an animated effect to the message or text whenever you react with the selected emojis. Currently, only a handful of emojis will support the reaction feature. But that’s not the point of worry since almost all the majorly used emojis are there.

A total of ten emojis are supported and they are; thumbs up emoji, smile face, red heart, thumbs down, face with a tear of joy, enraged face, a pile of poo, party popper, angry face, crying face, and the face with open mouth. If you react to a text using any emojis, you will see an animated effect on the screen. For reference, if you react with a thumbs-up emoji to any text, it will display multiple thumbs-up emojis dancing around the text.

Users are free to turn and turn off the animations by going to settings, then accessibility, and then colors and motion. Now simply enable or disable the “Remove animations” option according to your preference.

It can also display iMessage reactions as text

Yes, you heard it right. If you are chatting with any of your friends who are using an iPhone to chat with you using RCS, and they react to any of your texts or messages, you will be able to see it in the text format. As of right now, the feature is only available for text messages and not the sent media or files.

Moreover, the US market is currently the only one that has the iMessage reaction display feature limited to it. The user can turn on the feature by going to settings, then advanced settings, and turn off “Show iPhone reactions as emoji.”

Mar 14, 2024