We’ve recognized for months that Google has been working to make its Messaging app correctly show emoji reactions despatched by iPhone customers. Now Google is making the function obtainable to all as a part of a bunch of latest and up to date options for its Messages app which are rolling out over the approaching weeks.
The beta already gave us a fairly good thought of how Google Messages interprets emoji reactions despatched by iOS customers, correctly formatting them on Android as a substitute of showing as a complicated textual content message that arrived individually.
Regardless of Google’s capitulation, it nonetheless says it desires “Apple to hitch the remainder of the cellular business and undertake RCS” for a greater long-term answer.
Google can also be constructing a Google Photographs sharing hyperlink instantly into Messages to supply customers a approach of sending pictures and movies to non-RCS (learn: iPhone) customers to keep away from picture high quality degradation. Google Messages will even now nudge you to answer a message if it’s been sitting in your inbox for some time (very like Gmail’s been doing for years), in addition to prompting you to want somebody a cheerful birthday in case you’ve obtained the date in your contacts app. Oh, and hyperlinks to YouTube movies shared in Messages will now show a preview for iOS customers as properly, which is good.
Lastly, a pair of Messages options Google first debuted in India final yr are getting a US launch. Probably the most fascinating of those is an choice to routinely delete one-time passcodes after 24 hours to keep away from your inbox getting cluttered with ineffective six-digit codes. They are going to be rolling out to extra nations sooner or later, Google spokesperson Maura Howard tells The Verge. There’s additionally a brand new choice to have Google’s software program routinely type your messages and allow you to filter them by “Private” and “Enterprise.”
Correction March tenth, 2:03PM ET: The 2 Messages options that debuted in India final yr, which we talked about within the final paragraph, are getting a US launch, not a worldwide one. We remorse the error.
