Apple announced a bunch of new features for iMessage in iOS 17. This includes emoji tapbacks and a new emoji stickers interface. The little-used iMessage apps have also been hidden away behind a ...

It looks like Google is starting to roll out an emoji chat reaction feature to its Google Messages app. This a feature that’s supported by RCS conversations only and will eventually make its way to ...

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Back in May, Google added support for iMessage-like emoji reactions for Messages sent over RCS, but the web app lacked support. Now, that’s finally being rectified. Over the past couple of days, the ...

It looks like users will have six emoji to choose from. Image: Killian Bell/Cult of Mac WhatsApp is readying message reactions on iOS and Android that will roll out in a future app update. Screenshots ...

Messages' long trek to feature parity with other chat apps continues got a boost this week with the addition of emoji reactions. Google has been testing the feature since at least the start of March, ...

After several months of testing, Google Messages users on Android are now able to see emoji that iPhone users send. In a blog post on Thursday morning, Google revealed that the feature to translate ...

The latest version of Google's Messages app seems to fix a long-standing issue for Android users: it finally displays reactions sent via Apple's iMessage correctly. As reported by 9to5 Google, the app ...