Google Messages now includes the entire gallery of emojis in response to text messages. Practical, as long as you have friends on the same application.
Google Messages is constantly enriched with small additional features. After a redesign of its visual identity, the upcoming arrival of the transcription of voice messages, the SMS and instant chat application has just added a very nice new feature based on emoji, unearthed by 9to5Google.
Emojis grow
If you could already react to a message sent by SMS or RCS using emojis, the option was so far limited to six basic emojis (thumbs up or down, smile with hearts in eyes, shocked emoji with open mouth, crying emoji, laughing crying emoji and angry emoji). It is now the complete gallery of emojis that is available to you. They are also animated.
We knew the feature was coming, we finally saw it on a Pixel 7 Pro being used by a staff member. If your interlocutor also uses Google Messages, he will therefore be able to see the reactions in question. If your interlocutor uses another app or an iPhone, he will receive the traditional messages describing an emoji reaction.
In principle, the functionality is already available on the stable version of the application. Unless you haven’t updated it, you should already be able to enjoy it.
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