
Image: Googleįinally, a pair of Messages features Google first debuted in India last year are getting a US release. Messages will now sort your personal and professional correspondence, and nudge you to respond to messages. Oh, and links to YouTube videos shared in Messages will now display a preview for iOS users as well, which is nice. Google Messages will also now nudge you to respond to a message if it’s been sitting in your inbox for a while (much like Gmail’s been doing for years), as well as prompting you to wish someone a happy birthday if you’ve got the date in your contacts app. Google is also building a Google Photos sharing link directly into Messages to offer users a way of sending photos and videos to non-RCS (read: iPhone) users to avoid image quality degradation. The Google Photos sharing link and emoji reactions in action.
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The beta already gave us a pretty good idea of how Google Messages translates emoji reactions sent by iOS users, properly formatting them on Android instead of appearing as a confusing text message that arrived separately.ĭespite Google’s capitulation, it still says it wants “Apple to join the rest of the mobile industry and adopt RCS” for a better long-term solution. Now Google is making the feature available to all as part of a host of new and updated features for its Messages app that are rolling out over the coming weeks.

We’ve known for months that Google has been working to make its Messaging app properly display emoji reactions sent by iPhone users.
