In Cupertino they still don’t like RCS messaging too much, although Google is still working to convince them and is preparing its ‘Messages’ app so that we can react to SMS sent even from an iPhone.
no one, not even Googleis managing to convince users (and incidentally Apple) to go to the RCS messagingand it is not that we are much closer to Cupertino adopting this technology or becoming more popular globally.
What we do know is that in Mountain View continue to work to improve their applications of ‘Messages’ and try to bring the RCS protocol closer to the needs of the market, surely looking for this evolution of SMS is finally standardized and increase your penetration rates.
Google’s ‘Messages’ app keeps getting better, now with reactions to SMS even sent from an iPhone.
As the colleagues from Android Police told us, one of the points of tension between Apple and Google regarding the RCS is precisely that of the reactions to messagessomething that in this protocol has become quite outdated and to which Google intends to give it a push testing the ability react to SMS messages even sent from an iPhone to an Android mobile.
This feature is already being implemented more widely, so in ‘Messages’ from Google it will now be possible to react to any SMS with one of the seven emoji predefined, regardless of the terminal of the sender of said text message.
The new option of the app ‘Messages’ of Google will continue to function as we know it, displaying the reaction in the lower right corner of the original message for all RCS users, although those who do not use a compatible app also they will be able to see the reaction as a separate new messagemuch like how iMessage reactions worked until recently.
The best is that the emoji will be shown as they are in that new messageand not translated into text or with strange characters as was the case in the past on many platforms. emoji primals
The new reactions implemented by Google in its ‘Messages’ app will be seen in the bottom right corner of the SMS for everyone using an RCS-compliant app, and in a separate new message for iPhone users and unsupported apps.
It’s not the best solution so that reactions to SMS can be considered as a well-integrated functionality, but It is a start and for Google an advance in that attempt to convince Apple that it adopts the RCS protocol to give that definitive push to a standard also supported by the operators.
Own Tim Cook has closed the door indeed to any perspective we might have on Apple adopting RCS, as he has said in his Code Conference 2022 that “I don’t hear our users asking us to put a lot of energy into it right now”.
We will have to keep waiting, or thinking about definitively abandon this of the SMS in favor of other platforms… Do not you think?