Google tests reactions to SMS messages from iPhones

Last month, Google launched a campaign called #GetTheMessage aimed at convincing Apple to support RCS messaging on iPhones. Google's call to action did little, as less than a month later Apple CEO Tim Cook told a reporter that he should buy his friend an iPhone. mother in response to her inability to send high quality videos to her mother's Android phone. .

Google's efforts to improve messaging between Android and iPhone users (or to annoy iPhone users even more) are evident with the latest feature being tested. As spotted by Reddit user u/Jabjab345, the Google Messages app is testing the ability to react to messages sent from iPhones. When an Android user reacts to a text message from an iPhone user, they will see a message indicating that an emoji was used to react to a message.

Basically, Google took out Apple. If you recall, iOS users can react to SMS messages, which sends an SMS message back to the recipient (in this case, an Android phone) and transmits a message of the reaction emoji, along with the text of the message quoted.

Google has since made it so that its Messages app can determine which message the reaction was intended for and instead displays an emoji next to the message itself. With this new implementation, Google is preying on iPhone users by showing them a similar, text-only version of a reaction to a message.

Reacting to messages with an emoji is nothing new. Many cross-platform messaging apps, including WhatsApp, Telegram, Messenger, Skype, Teams, Instagram (there are too many to list), all support reacting with an emoji. Right now, the only market where this really matters to some people is the US, where users prefer to use the phone's default messaging experience. In the case of Android, these are Google Messages with RCS and iMessage on iPhone.

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