The funniest part is Apple refused to work with Google on an open standard so Google reworked it’s app to give Apple users the same experience Android users have had to have for years when texting with iMessage users, then not long after that apple switched to using a shared open standard
Fun fact: if one person with an iPhone is messaging someone with an android using Google Messages, and the iPhone user hasn’t enabled RCS chats, any reactions the iPhone user sends will show up on the Android as a message reaction, but reactions the Android user sends will show up as something like “[phone number] reacted ‘😂’ to ‘so I bought an iPhone today…’” which is pretty funny. How the tables turn I guess
A large portion of the 3rd party android SMS apps can’t display emoji reactions, and so describe the emoji as a text instead.
The funniest part is Apple refused to work with Google on an open standard so Google reworked it’s app to give Apple users the same experience Android users have had to have for years when texting with iMessage users, then not long after that apple switched to using a shared open standard
Fun fact: if one person with an iPhone is messaging someone with an android using Google Messages, and the iPhone user hasn’t enabled RCS chats, any reactions the iPhone user sends will show up on the Android as a message reaction, but reactions the Android user sends will show up as something like “[phone number] reacted ‘😂’ to ‘so I bought an iPhone today…’” which is pretty funny. How the tables turn I guess
Are there any SMS apps that are FOSS and will work with those reactions?
I’m on android and get those weird reaction texts all the time.
I have not found one.
🫢SMS
Welcome to the US, we’re backwards like that.
WhatsApp ain’t much better to be fair (it’s Facebook owned, so it has “encryption”)
WhatsApp has encreeption - it turns decent people into creeps
☺️session messenger warmed my heart lately