You can say goodbye to the dreaded “🥲 to ‘why the hell aren’t emoji reacts working?’” from iOS to Android with RCS.

It was discovered by the folks at The Verge that reactions are displayed as intended when they were sent between iPhones ...

Apple has fixed the issue of Android reactions appearing as separate messages on iOS, now showing them in-line with message bubbles, enhancing iPhone-Android messaging compatibility.

Apple wasn't too excited to do so, but it finally added RCS messages on iOS 18, paving the way for SMS to finally be a thing ...

According to The Verge, emoji reactions now display correctly on both iOS and Android. In their test, they sent reactions ...

The Verge sent test messages and emoji reactions between iPhones running iOS 18.1 and different Android phones, confirming ...

RCS‌ is also supposed to support emoji reactions from Android users, but it wasn't working properly when ‌iOS 18‌ launched.

Phone owners can say goodbye to texts from Android owners that spell out their emoji reaction to a message. They'll just need ...

Verizon delayed ending its Message+ app until December 9. They suggest switching to Google Messages for better texting ...

Users will get a choice between sending compressed images (faster, less data used) and original quality (better quality, ...

The experience texting between Android and iPhone has never been particularly great — primarily down to Apple’s own stubbornness in adopting the RCS standard. Images and videos were compressed more ...

even though iOS reactions displayed fine on Android. Apple’s move to better support RCS (Rich Communication Services) ...