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.

As The Verge reports, emoji reactions show up properly on both platforms. They tested this by sending emoji reactions on texts from an iPhone running iOS 18.1 and an Android phone.

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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