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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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 ...

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.

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When an Android user uses an emoji reaction to a message that you've sent over ‌RCS‌, the emoji will now show up in line with the message bubble, just like it does on with iOS Tapback reactions.