Last month, Google launched a campaign called #GetTheMessage which aimed to get Apple to support RCS messaging on the iPhone. Google’s call-to-action didn’t do much, as just less than a month later, Apple CEO Tim Cook told a reporter that he should have bought his mom an iPhone in response to his inability to send videos. high quality to his mother’s android phone.
Google’s efforts to improve messaging between Android and iPhone users (or annoy iPhone users even more) are evident with the latest feature being tested. As noted by the Reddit user u / Jabjab345, the Google Messages app is testing the ability to react to messages sent from iPhone. When an Android user reacts to a text message from an iPhone user, she will see a message showing that an emoji was used to react to a message.
Basically, Google pulled an Apple. If you remember, iOS users can react to SMS messages, which sends an SMS message to the recipient (in this case an Android phone) and transmits a message of the reaction emoji, along with the text of the quoted message.
Source: Reddit
Google has since made sure that its Messages app could tell which message the reaction was and instead displays an emoji next to the message itself. With this new implementation, Google is making fun of iPhone users by showing them a similar text-only version of a reaction to a message.
What Android sees when an iPhone reacts to a text message
Reacting to messages with an emoji is nothing new. Lots of cross-platform messaging apps including WhatsApp, Telegram, Messenger, Skype, Teams, Instagram (there are too many to list) all support reaction with an emoji. At this point, the only market where this really matters to some people is in the United States, where users prefer to use the phone’s default messaging experience. In the case of Android they are Google Messages with RCS and iMessage on iPhone.
The feature was spotted on a beta build of the Google Messages app, but hasn’t been widely implemented. Google has not yet confirmed this feature.
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