Messaging between Android and iOS simply acquired just a little bit higher. Apple has lastly allowed these rapscallions on the best Android phones to ship message reactions to iPhone customers (by way of The Verge). Meaning iPhone customers speaking with the lowly green bubble types over RCS will lastly begin seeing emoji reactions seem on the related messages — as they need to be.
The expertise texting between Android and iPhone has by no means been significantly nice — primarily all the way down to Apple’s personal stubbornness in adopting the RCS customary. Photos and movies have been compressed greater than a soda can within the Mariana Trench and good options didn’t work correctly — in the event that they even labored in any respect.
That’s why the addition of RCS messaging on the iPhone was such an enormous deal. It might not have been the moment changeover some folks anticipated, however does pave the way in which for additional enhancements to the cross-platform messaging expertise. This consists of guaranteeing that message reactions really work, and don’t simply drop an emoji on a separate line.
The Verge studies that reactions are engaged on iOS 18.1 and completely different Android telephones. Beforehand, RCS messages solely featured appropriate reactions on the Android facet, however one thing someplace alongside the road has modified. It’s not clear who’s chargeable for this or what they did, however that doesn’t actually matter.
The extra enhancements that may be made to RCS messaging between iPhone and Android, the higher it’s for everybody. Hopefully it implies that much more enhancements and refinements are on the way in which within the close to future. The Verge notes that since emoji reactions are a part of RCS model 2.7, there must also be the choice to edit despatched messages as properly. However proper now this doesn’t appear to be energetic.
Evidently, enhancements are wanted, particularly encryption. Contemplating Apple’s historic excuse for ignoring RCS was all the way down to privateness issues, and the very fact it promised to make Android/iPhone messaging safer, the continued lack of end-to-end encryption is rather strange.
Simply don’t count on these inexperienced bubbles to go anyplace. They’ll be sticking round no matter how significantly better Android-to-iPhone messaging will get.
