Google not too long ago launched a marketing campaign final month titled #GetTheMessage that aimed to persuade Apple to assist Rich Communication Services (RCS) messaging on iPhones. According to a report Google’s efforts to enhance messaging between Android and iPhone customers are obvious with the newest characteristic being examined on the app. A Reddit consumer has noticed that the Google Messages app is testing the flexibility to react to messages despatched from iPhones. When an Android consumer reacts to an SMS from an iPhone consumer, they’ll see a message exhibiting an emoji was used to react to a message.

According to a report by Android Police, Google pulled an Apple. If you recall, iOS customers can react to SMS messages, which ship an SMS message again to the recipient (on this case an Android telephone) which features a message that specifies which response was used, together with the quoted message textual content, perceived by many customers as annoying.

Google has already up to date its Messages app to know which message the response was for, and the app as a substitute shows an emoji subsequent to the message itself. With the brand new implementation, Google is now poking again at iPhone customers, exhibiting them an analogous text-only model of a response to an SMS message, as per the report.

Reacting to messages with an emoji is not a novel idea. Plenty of cross-platform messaging apps together with WhatsApp, Telegram, Messenger, Skype, Microsoft Teams, and Instagram include assist for reacting to messages or media with an emoji.

At this level, the one market the place this actually issues is iOS and Android customers who stay within the US, the place many customers choose to make use of the telephone’s default messaging expertise. In Android’s case, that is the default Google Messages app with RCS, whereas the Messages app is the default on the iPhone.