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Google Messages Adds Reactions

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Jul 22, 2020, 2:14 PM by Rich Brome @rbrome.bsky.social
updated Jul 22, 2020, 2:14 PM

Google has updated Messages — its own standards-based rich messaging app for Android — to support emoji-like message reactions, similar to the reactions features in iMessage and Facebook. Available reactions are: like, love, laughter, surprise, sadness, anger, and dislike. The feature only works in "conversations with chat features enabled", referring to message threads using rich messaging (RCS) instead of standard text messaging SMS. Google and some US carriers have been increasingly supporting RCS on new Android phones in the past couple of years.

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