Users of the Google Messages beta will now correctly display reactions sent from the Messages app on iPhones.
In the latest beta, stamped 20220121_02_RC00, Google’s SMS application finally knows how to interpret the reactions expressed by emojis sent by iPhone users.
Until now, when a user on iOS sent a reaction to a message sent by a contact on Android, the latter saw the reaction sent by the correspondent on iOS displayed in full and in a chat bubble. If the user on iPhone sent a thumbs up or a heart, Messages on Android would show the message “added a ‘Like'” added a ‘Like’.
Things are therefore about to change since the Messages application for Android smartphones now knows how to interpret these emojis and therefore transcribes them as such.
The Verge – On the left, reactions as they are sent from an iPhone. On the right, reactions as they are now displayed on Android.
If the option is already present and activated by default in the Advanced Settings of the Google Messages application, it is not yet fully functional in conversations.
Source: The Verge