Apple is exhibiting like to Android customers by lastly exhibiting message reactions correctly. Now when an Android consumer reacts to an RCS message from an iOS consumer, the chosen emoji will seem according to the message bubble on iOS – as a substitute of archaically showing as a separate line like this: “💀 to “that's not he needed to do”. occur.'”
The Verge despatched check messages and emoji reactions between iPhones working iOS 18.1 and numerous Android telephones, confirming that each gadgets now show reactions as supposed. It's not clear when this alteration occurred, or whose facet — Google or Apple — needed to make changes to make it work.
When RCS was extensively launched on iOS in September, reactions to messages from Android customers nonetheless weren't displayed accurately on iPhone, though it labored the opposite manner round. We reached out to each firms for remark however didn’t hear again earlier than publication.
Apple's quiet enchancment of RCS messaging comes as a shock. Apple ignored Google's marketing campaign for years to get the corporate to undertake the usual, lastly complying solely after a mixture of strain from each China and the EU. Fundamental help for RCS was included in iOS 18.
Inside the Messages app, Apple formally helps the essential RCS commonplace referred to as RCS Common Profile. Emoji response help is a part of RCS 2.7, which must also embrace the flexibility to edit a despatched message, however I couldn't get this to work on iOS. After all, Apple will hold as many unique options as doable for its blue-bubble iMessage service, at the least till it's compelled to alter.