It provides a customizable interface, blacklisting, and a keyboard full of GIFS and Emojis. Textra SMS is a free program that can replace your standard SMS/MMS application on your Android device. Textra SMS is that kind of Android app you come across from time to time, that does exactly what you want it to do in exactly the right way: texting. As 9to5Google points out, the little heart for 'loving' an image on ‌iPhone‌ is replaced with a heart eyes emoji on Android, and the laugh iMessage Reaction is translated into a laughing face emoji.Īndroid devices will also display a 'translated from ‌iPhone‌' icon so that Google Messages users understand where the reaction is coming from.As previously mentioned, Textra is an Android only app that specializes in the customization of messaging from the color of the app to the color of the text bubbles. It also cluttered up the chat thread by unnecessarily repeating texts.Īs shown in the screenshots above, the reaction messages are linked to the chat bubble, and they also use icons pulled from the RCS system. The text-based system could lead to awkwardness, especially with Android users unaware of iMessage reactions. Adding a heart icon to a message showed a little heart on ‌iPhone‌, for example, but on Android, it would show up as 'Loved' and then the text of the original message. Prior to the Google Messages update, if an ‌iPhone‌ user added a reaction like a heart or thumbs up to a message in the Messages app, it would look odd on an Android device while showing up appropriately on an ‌iPhone‌.

Google Messages appears to be interpreting iMessage reactions just like reactions sent through the RCS protocol used for Google Messages rather than providing them in a text format.

Screenshots from 9to5Google reader JvolkmanĪccording to 9to5Google, some Android users are beginning to see iMessage reactions in Google Messages as emoji that are linked to the relevant conversation.

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