Launched in 2020, Google’s Emoji Kitchen allows you to create custom emojis by combining two or more existing ones. For example, you can combine a cowboy hat with a crying face.

However, emoji reactions only work on RCS version 2.7, not the RCS Universal Profile. Either Apple updated the protocol without notifying anyone, or Google silently made a change on its end.

Credit: Kafka Ibram / Shutterstock Finally some good news for iPhone and Android users in the same group chat. Emoji reactions, or Tapbacks, now work properly between iPhone and Android messages.

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