Translate iMessage Tapbacks as Emoji Reactions

[juliloving]

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Feature description

Basically identical to the feature that Google Messages has, which would work like this:

Every time a message is sent that starts with Loved, Liked, Disliked, Laughed at, Emphasized, or Questioned and immediately quotes the previous message verbatim, it would be translated as an "emoji reaction" (visually of course, not much would happen from the backend)

For example: Laughed at "Can you react to this message? I'm testing something out" This would just show the previous message, with a laughing emoji on the bottom right side of the bubble (often with a circular border)

I propose these emojis will replace the reactions (and I think they're straightforward)

Loved: ❤️ Laughed at: 😂 Liked: 👍 Disliked: 👎 Emphasized:❗ Questioned: ❓

More about the logic and how it works: if what's reacted to is an image, it's not possible to be 100% sure if it's the previously sent image or some other one, so Google Messages has opted to keep in the "[reacted to] an image" message

Why do you want this feature?

My family uses Apple devices and it would be nice, it's also a feature I've been missing from Google Messages

Additional information

No response

[JacksonBarker]

Are there any edge cases, such as

• reacting to a longer than 146-character GSM-7 message or 56-character UCS-2 message on a carrier that does not support concatinated SMS, or
• reacting to a concatinated message with 255 segments where the final segment is longer than 146-characters GSM-7 or 53-characters UCS-2, where a simple solution such as regex'ing the content of the message would fail? What do the reaction messages look like in these cases?

[chesio]

There's a GitHub issue with basically identical feature request for another open source messenger app (QUIK) and this comment might be of interest: https://github.com/octoshrimpy/quik/issues/152#issuecomment-2330183516

[Jacoblightning]

I would love this feature but I have experienced some weird things. For example. With an image, I have recieved the following message: "Einem Bild ein Lachen hinzugefügt" which (according to translate) means "Added a smile to an image". The other person was just reacting and their phone language is English.

[Soupolait]

This is why I came on this page ! Would be a great feature It would also be amazing to be able to react to the messages.

[einzel]

I too would like to see this feature added. In the other SMS apps I've used that allow this, the only exception seems to be for images, which might have something to do with what Jacoblightning above is talking about. But reacting to images isn't as... necessary as being able to do simple likes and hearts and whatever as reactions.

The apps I've used with this behavior include Textra and Next SMS.