Google today announced that Android users can add emoji reactions to SMS texts they receive from iPhone users in the Google Messages app. This feature and other improvements to the app will roll out in the coming weeks.
Since the Messages app on iOS doesn’t support the Rich Communication Services (RCS) protocol, emoji reactions from Android users will appear as annoying follow-up SMS text messages on iPhone, it says CNET. For example, the message will be something like “Joe responded heartily to ‘Let’s go to the movies tonight’.”
This was announced by Google’s head of the Messages app, Jan Jedrzejowicz CNET that it’s up to Apple to decide whether or not to parse these texts into the appropriate tapback response on iPhone, much like how tapbacks are now properly displayed on Android.
The feature appears to be, at least in part, an attempt by Google to encourage Apple to support RCS on the iPhone as it would eliminate those annoying follow-up text messages. Google launched a campaign earlier this year urging Apple to adopt RCS, but Apple CEO Tim Cook suggested the feature wasn’t in high demand from iPhone users.
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