Android Units Could Quickly Present iMessage Reactions as Emoji

The Google Messages app on Android gadgets could quickly begin exhibiting iMessage reactions as emoji characters as a substitute of textual content, in line with some digging completed by 9to5Google.

Within the Messages app on iOS and Mac gadgets, customers can add a response like a coronary heart, thumbs up, thumbs down, fun, a query mark, or an exclamation, all of which present up as annotations to an iMessage. These reactions may also be used on “inexperienced bubble” messages from Android customers, however Android does not interpret them accurately and it might result in awkwardness.

When you coronary heart a message on an iPhone, for instance, a fellow ‌iPhone‌ person will see a little bit coronary heart on the message. On Android, although, whenever you coronary heart a message it reveals it in textual content: [Person] “Beloved” after which the textual content of the message. That is true of all the iMessages reactions, Google turns them into textual content in a means that appears bizarre, particularly if Android customers aren’t conscious of iMessage reactions.

9to5Google regarded on the code within the newest beta replace to Google Messages and found that slightly than exhibiting iMessage reactions as textual content, Google Messages could quickly translate them into emoji, which might be a significantly better resolution for Android customers.

“Present ‌iPhone‌ reactions as emoji,” reads a line of the code, beneath the “ios_reaction_classification.”

For now, it isn’t clear precisely how this “classification” would work, however one would think about Google Messages would spot incoming messages that begin with one thing like “Appreciated” and attempt to match it to a earlier message. As soon as it is discovered what message is being reacted to, maybe Google Message will conceal the incoming iMessage fallback and as a substitute present an emoji beneath the unique message.

That stated, iMessage has a distinct set of reactions than presently provided by Google Messages in RCS chats. Google could also be accounting for this, as there may be point out within the code of “mapping” the iMessage reactions, presumably mapping to the set of reactions out there in Google Messages in the present day, or maybe simply mapping to varied emoji.

Displaying an emoji for an iMessage response might keep away from a few of the awkwardness in interactions between iOS and Android customers going ahead, ought to Google finally resolve to implement this transformation.