Google Messages is the corporate’s SMS messaging platform, and it’s been gaining sure options over time. One characteristic is the flexibility to make use of emojis as a response. Now, Google Messages allow you to react utilizing any emoji.
Google Messages introduced emoji reactions again in 2020, however there’s been a fairly annoying difficulty. There have been solely seven emojis obtainable (Thumbs up, Thumbs down, Laughing face, Coronary heart eyes, Mad face, Crying face, Shocked face). They cowl the fundamentals, sure, nevertheless it’s nothing in comparison with the large variety of emojis on the market. It was additionally a bit annoying that the corporate saved this restriction for greater than two years.
However, Google Messages now allow you to use any emoji
Thankfully, Google has determined to elevate that ceiling. Customers on Reddit (through Android Police) noticed this new change just lately. If you wish to react to a message with an emoji, you’d simply must faucet and maintain the message that you simply wish to react to. You’d see a bar of seven emojis pop up.
After the replace, you’ll nonetheless see the bar pop up, however there can be one other icon on the far proper. Whenever you faucet on that “emoji+” icon, you’ll see the usual emoji picker pop up. It’s the identical UI that you simply’d see in the event you’re typing one into the textual content subject. Which means’d be the identical emoji picker that comes together with your system’s default keyboard.
For the Gboard, you’ll see the massive vertically-scrolling feed of emojis you can select from. Above the feed, there’s the search bar to seek for that one. On the underside, you’ll see the ten classes to rapidly transport you to the kind that you really want.
This must be nice information in the event you like to react to your entire messages utilizing emojis. Simply know that this might nonetheless be rolling out, so there’s an opportunity that you simply gained’t see this simply but. You may verify the app within the Google Play retailer to see if there’s an replace obtainable. If not, then you definately’ll simply wish to wait a few days.