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.

According to The Verge, emoji reactions now display correctly on both iOS and Android. In their test, they sent reactions between an iPhone running iOS 18.1 and an Android phone, and the reactions ...

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.

With the additions of these new emoji entries, it’s likely that most iOS and Android devices will see full integration sometime around the beginning of 2024. Last year, Google was quick to ...

The emoji introduced in iOS 18.4 are expected to become standardized across other platforms in coming months as Android and other systems roll out their own updates.