An replace to Google Messages on Android permits it to correctly show emoji reactions despatched from the iPhone’s Messages app, 9to5Google reports.

The replace addresses a long-standing situation that happens when customers of Apple’s iMessage service chat with associates utilizing the Messages app on Android. Previously, when an iPhone consumer reacted to an Android consumer’s message utilizing an emoji, it appeared as a separate textual content message when obtained on Android, typically leading to confusion and many pointless litter.

Screenshot: Google Messages

Screenshot: 9to5Google

After the replace, nevertheless, the message circulate is so much easier. Screenshots posted by 9to5Google present how the emoji reactions seem hooked up to the supposed textual content, as if they have been despatched by one other Google Messages consumer. Tapping on an emoji response shows a popup saying that it’s been “Translated from iPhone.”

Interestingly, emoji reactions despatched from iPhone appear to typically seem as completely different emoji on Android. The coronary heart emoji, for instance, reportedly seems as heart-eyes on Android. iPhone customers also can retroactively change their emoji response, and the change can be mirrored seamlessly within the Android app.

The function doesn’t seem to have extensively rolled out simply but, even for customers with the most recent beta model of the Google Messages app — we tried however have been unable to pressure the emoji reactions to show in our personal checks. But when it arrives, it ought to take away a small level of friction in iPhone to Android communications, even when it’s nonetheless a far cry from providing iMessage natively on Android.