{"id":10094,"date":"2022-02-02T01:27:26","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T01:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/TheNextWeb=1379371"},"modified":"2022-02-02T01:27:26","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T01:27:26","slug":"android-users-loved-google-messages-beta-supports-iphone-reactions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=10094","title":{"rendered":"Android users loved \u201cGoogle Messages beta supports iPhone reactions\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As someone who has never owned an <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/topic\/iphone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">iPhone<\/a> and generally does his best to avoid people who do (kinda sorta kidding), I remember being mystified when I\u2019d receive a cryptic message from a friend telling me they \u201cLoved\u201d a text message I\u2019d just sent. Gee, thanks for letting me know. It took me an embarrassingly long time to realize that this was just the way iOS reactions to text messages show up on Android.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-image post-mediaBleed aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1379378 size-full js-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/02\/Messages-iOs-Android-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Messages from iOS as they appear on Android\" width=\"1171\" height=\"187\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1171px) 100vw, 1171px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/02\/Messages-iOs-Android-copy.jpg 1171w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/02\/Messages-iOs-Android-copy-280x45.jpg 280w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/02\/Messages-iOs-Android-copy-270x43.jpg 270w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/02\/Messages-iOs-Android-copy-540x86.jpg 540w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/02\/Messages-iOs-Android-copy-796x127.jpg 796w\"><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/iphone-reactions-on-android-finally#\" data-url=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Feditorial.thenextweb.com%2Fplugged%2F2022%2F02%2F02%2Fiphone-reactions-on-android-finally%2F&amp;via=thenextweb&amp;related=thenextweb&amp;text=Check out this picture on: Reactions from iPhones as they appear on Android.\" data-title=\"Share Reactions from iPhones as they appear on Android. on Twitter\" data-width=\"685\" data-height=\"500\" class=\"post-image-share popitup\" title=\"Share Reactions from iPhones as they appear on Android. on Twitter\"><i class=\"icon icon--inline icon--twitter--dark\"><\/i><\/a>Reactions from iPhones as they appear on Android.<\/figcaption><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1379378 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/02\/Messages-iOs-Android-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Messages from iOS as they appear on Android\" width=\"1171\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/02\/Messages-iOs-Android-copy.jpg 1171w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/02\/Messages-iOs-Android-copy-280x45.jpg 280w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/02\/Messages-iOs-Android-copy-270x43.jpg 270w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/02\/Messages-iOs-Android-copy-540x86.jpg 540w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/02\/Messages-iOs-Android-copy-796x127.jpg 796w\"><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<p>After all these years, it seems <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/topic\/google\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google<\/a> has seen fit to find a solution. As spotted by <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2022\/01\/31\/android-messages-imessage-reactions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">9to5Google<\/a>, the latest beta of Google Messages\u2014the default SMS app on many <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/topic\/android\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Android<\/a> phones\u2014is rolling out support for iMessage reactions. The feature is still limited to a few users in the beta (I wasn\u2019t able to get it working just yet), but it seems Google is nonetheless preparing for a wider roll-out.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"4.8417721518987\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">iPhone \ud83d\ude0d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Android?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">@android<\/a>. Reactions showing properly in messages app <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oJKQTeOwAq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/oJKQTeOwAq<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nMa8k7E5W7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/nMa8k7E5W7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mark Guim (@markguim) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/markguim\/status\/1488351222201569284?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">February 1, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In case you\u2019re like me and have little experience with fruit-logo phones, the iMessage feature (technically called \u2018Tapback\u2019) has been around since iOS 10 was released in 2016. It works similarly to reactions on other platforms like Facebook \u2014 double tap on a message to send any of 6 reactions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Heart<\/li>\n<li>Thumbs up<\/li>\n<li>Thumbs down<\/li>\n<li>A \u201cHa Ha\u201d symbol<\/li>\n<li>A pair of exclamation points<\/li>\n<li>A question mark<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><figure class=\"post-image post-mediaBleed aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1379370 js-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/02\/Snag_390e00a8.png\" alt=\"iOS reactions Tapback\" width=\"571\" height=\"369\" sizes=\"(max-width: 571px) 100vw, 571px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/02\/Snag_390e00a8.png 571w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/02\/Snag_390e00a8-280x181.png 280w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/02\/Snag_390e00a8-209x135.png 209w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/02\/Snag_390e00a8-418x270.png 418w\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1379370\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/02\/Snag_390e00a8.png\" alt=\"iOS reactions Tapback\" width=\"571\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/02\/Snag_390e00a8.png 571w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/02\/Snag_390e00a8-280x181.png 280w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/02\/Snag_390e00a8-209x135.png 209w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/02\/Snag_390e00a8-418x270.png 418w\"><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>On Android devices, these reactions show up as cryptic text:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Loved \u201c____\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Liked \u201c____\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Disliked \u201c____\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Laughed at \u201c____\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Emphasized \u201c____\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Questioned \u201c____\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This can look weird at best and lead to miscommunications at worst \u2014 and is just another way Android users tend to feel alienated from iMessage users. I\u2019m not gonna lie, I didn\u2019t even realize until writing this article what \u201cEmphasized\u201d actually meant.<\/p>\n<p>The Google Messages beta instead now shows emojis in place of the awkward text. These don\u2019t translate perfectly, but it\u2019s a massive aesthetic and usability improvement if you ask me.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Loved: \ud83d\ude0d<\/li>\n<li>Liked: \ud83d\udc4d<\/li>\n<li>Disliked: \ud83d\udc4e<\/li>\n<li>Laughed: \ud83d\ude02<\/li>\n<li>Emphasized: \ud83d\ude2e<\/li>\n<li>Questioned: \ud83e\udd14<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That said, I\u2019m sure these emoji will still lead to some confusion now and then. I mean, exclamation points could certainly mean \u2018wow,\u2019 but I could also see it being used to mark something as urgent. It\u2019s also worth considering that the emoji might indicate a different tone than intended by the iOS user; a question mark symbol is pretty straightforward, while I interpret the emoji as more doubtful or suspicious than questioning. It\u2019s hard enough getting tone across via text without emoji being misunderstood too.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s especially puzzling as, I mean, there <em>are<\/em> emoji for those symbols. Come on, Google\u2757 It\u2019s not that hard, right\u2753See, I did it.<\/p>\n<p>In Google\u2019s defense, these are the same symbols the company uses for RCS, which it\u2019s been desperately <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/android-exec-hiroshi-lockheimer-rcs-iphones\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">trying to convince Apple<\/a> to adopt. So it makes sense that Google would want to maintain consistency for RCS users. Still, I feel like there might\u2019ve been a better solution, like perhaps simply adding the iOS reactions to the RCS batch.<\/p>\n<p>But hey, it\u2019s a start.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/iphone-reactions-on-android-finally\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As someone who has never owned an iPhone and generally does his best to avoid people who do (kinda sorta kidding), I remember being mystified when I\u2019d receive a cryptic message from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10094"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}