A long press is all you need to activate the Emoji reaction bar that gives a choice of seven emojis. The users confirmed that they could react to a message, which includes thumbs-up, heart eyes, laughing, shocked, sad, angry, and thumbs down emojis. They confirmed seeing “reactions” on their RCS conversations by sharing screenshots. There have been multiple reports on Reddit where a few users have got the feature on their phones. How to get emoji reaction bar on Android?Īre iMessage-like reactions available on Android?.Are iMessage-like reactions available on Android?.But when it arrives, it should remove a small point of friction in iPhone to Android communications, even if it’s still a far cry from offering iMessage natively on Android. The feature doesn’t appear to have widely rolled out just yet, even for users with the latest beta version of the Google Messages app - we tried but were unable to force the emoji reactions to display in our own tests. iPhone users can also retroactively change their emoji reaction, and the change will be reflected seamlessly in the Android app. The heart emoji, for example, reportedly appears as heart-eyes on Android. Interestingly, emoji reactions sent from iPhone seem to sometimes appear as different emoji on Android. Tapping on an emoji reaction displays a popup saying that it’s been “Translated from iPhone.” Screenshots posted by 9to5Google show how the emoji reactions appear attached to the intended text, as though they were sent by another Google Messages user. Screenshot: 9to5GoogleĪfter the update, however, the message flow is a lot simpler.

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