Key Takeaways
- Emoji reactions now show appropriately between Android and iPhone customers.
- Emoji reactions despatched from Android customers now not present up as a separate textual content.
- Apple improved cross-platform texting with RCS assist in iOS 18.
Apple took a giant step in bettering the cross-platform messaging expertise between Android and iPhones by including RCS support to iOS 18’s Messages app. This lastly supplies Android and iPhone customers with a superior cross-platform texting expertise, with options like typing indicators, the power to share high-resolution photographs, and extra. There was a flaw in Apple’s implementation, although, as when an Android consumer reacted to a message, it arrived as a separate textual content. Fortunately, this now not seems to be a problem.
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It is in all probability time we moved on from the outdated SMS normal
As The Verge stories, emoji reactions present up correctly on each platforms. They examined this by sending emoji reactions on texts from an iPhone operating iOS 18.1 and an Android cellphone. In each circumstances, the reactions confirmed up correctly on the opposite system. Beforehand, a separate textual content appeared on the sender’s iPhone for each emoji response despatched by an Android consumer.
Apple helps RCS model 2.4 in iOS 18, which doesn’t assist emoji reactions. This function is part of RCS v2.7. So, both Apple upgraded iPhones to the newer RCS normal with iOS 18.1, or Google made backend modifications in order that iPhones might higher deal with emoji reactions despatched from Android gadgets.
RCS v2.7 additionally permits enhancing a despatched textual content, however this function just isn’t engaged on iPhones but. iPhone customers are restricted to enhancing texts despatched to different iPhone customers over iMessage.
Curiously, the lack to show emoji reactions correctly has lengthy been a problem with iMessage. In November 2021, Google rolled out an replace to Google Messages to display iMessage reactions properly. In February 2023, it expanded the function by permitting Google Messages users to react with any emoji.
Apple launched an analogous function to its Messages app with iOS 18’s launch, permitting iPhone customers to make use of any emoji or sticker as Tapbacks.
Extra carriers worldwide must assist RCS on the iPhone
Whereas all iPhones assist RCS following iOS 18’s launch this September, there is a huge catch. Carriers should additionally assist the messaging normal; in any other case, chats with Android customers will fall again to the great outdated SMS. And proper now, regardless of the iPhone’s recognition, many operators outdoors the US do not assist RCS on iOS. So, the cross-platform texting expertise between Android and iPhone continues to be inferior to it ought to be.
