Google Messages getting ability to react to SMS, as annoying as iMessage equivalent - 9to5Google

A day after it emerged that Apple is taking credit for Google adding iMessage reactions on Android, the Messages app is beginning to roll out the ability to leave reactions on SMS texts, which is already possible with RCS.

We’ve now received two reports of Google Messages users being able to react to SMS texts.

Like with RCS, you just press to get the seven reactions, which are unchanged. If the SMS recipient is using Messages, the reaction just appears in the bottom-right corner.

For recipients that are not using the Google Messages app, don’t have RCS chat enabled, or on iOS, the fallback is a text message with the emoji from the sender followed by what’s being reacted to in quotes.

L: Messages app leaving reaction on SMS | R: SMS reactions from Android on iPhone (1st, 3rd, & 4th lines).

Apple takes credit for iMessage reactions on Android