Android’s iOS-friendly emoji reactions formally launch in main Google Messages replace

We’ve identified for months that Google has been working to make its Messaging app correctly show emoji reactions despatched by iPhone customers. Now Google is making the feature available to all as a part of a number of recent and up to date options for its Messages app which are rolling out over the approaching weeks.

The beta already gave us a reasonably good thought of how Google Messages interprets emoji reactions despatched by iOS customers, correctly formatting them on Android as an alternative of showing as a complicated textual content message that arrived individually.

Despite Google’s capitulation, it nonetheless says it desires “Apple to join the rest of the mobile industry and adopt RCS” for a greater long-term answer.

Google can be constructing a Google Photos sharing hyperlink instantly into Messages to supply customers a means of sending photographs and movies to non-RCS (learn: iPhone) customers to keep away from picture high quality degradation. Google Messages can even now nudge you to answer a message if it’s been sitting in your inbox for some time (very similar to Gmail’s been doing for years), in addition to prompting you to want somebody a contented birthday when you’ve acquired the date in your contacts app. Oh, and hyperlinks to YouTube movies shared in Messages will now show a preview for iOS customers as effectively, which is sweet.

Finally, a pair of Messages options Google first debuted in India final yr are getting a worldwide launch. The most attention-grabbing of those is an choice to mechanically delete one-time passcodes after 24 hours, to keep away from your inbox getting cluttered with ineffective six-digit codes. There’s additionally a brand new choice to have Google’s software program mechanically type your messages, and allow you to filter them by “Personal” and “Business.”