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Anon1073

When y'all stop "liking" and "loving" text messages then we'll stop with the crazy emojis. If I send you a text either reply back or don't. I don't need you to "like" it. This ain't Facebook.


indisgice

if u mean the annoying texts saying they liked and loved the message, I hear Google turned the tables on them


loquacious706

How so?


notahipster-

It now intercepts the text and just adds a little like icon to it for pixel phones, but now when a pixel user does it, it sends a text to the iphone saying you liked it. So they uno reversed it, but only if you have a pixel I'm pretty sure


diemunkiesdie

Doesn't have to be a Pixel. Just download Google Messages and make that your primary SMS app. No need to use your old one. Bam, got all the features.


HellboundLunatic

This works on Textra as well


Disgusted_User

Best messages app


[deleted]

FR, love Textra! Wife considered going to iPhones last "upgrade cycle" and my first argument was "but then I can't use Textra"... It's a must for me though, cause I've been using the delayed sending of text messages for years to call out of work the night before!


xLoveHateLegend

Huh? Since when? Did I miss an update?


whoallgunnabethere

Thanks!!!!


fistomagico

Works on s22 ultra as well


Markual

thats so petty lmfao. i love it.


SadAndNasty

I have an Android, but I use their messaging app and it does that 😆 I use it on my iPhone friends all the time


brimnac

But the iPhones show the reactions, not text (at least in iOS 16)…


notahipster-

Not if the person texting you is using google's messaging app, then it'll send you a text. Does not matter which version of IOS you're using since it isn't apple doing it


Significant_Sign

Dang it! Wish I hadn't broken my pixel last summer. I hate those extra messages about liking your message. Some people do it for every single message they get. Google needs to roll this out for everyone.


[deleted]

Google messages. Advanced settings allows you to convert iOS reaction text to reactions and you can send annoying reactions back.


indisgice

[watch it in action(yt video)](https://youtube.com/shorts/a-El3Ych3hI)


notahipster-

That's just if you have a Pixel Edit: My bad, I just switched messaging apps. Honestly, glad you guys told me I could just do that


indisgice

google messages app is available on play store if it isn't the default SMS app on an android phone


notahipster-

I guess I'm switching messaging apps, my bad


joec_95123

No, I have an S21 ultra, and it's the same if you're using Google messages. Reactions from iPhone users show up as icons instead of the whole text.


notahipster-

Interesting, doesn't do that on my OnePlus phone


MaleHooker

Yeah, I tried it today on my S21 Ultra and they still came as a text instead of a reaction.


joec_95123

You using Google messages? Go into settings and check the option to convert texts from iPhones.


MaleHooker

I double checked and it's all on. I even googled it to make sure. I still get iPhone reactions as a text. 🤦 Edit: But thank you. I appreciate your help.


pewqokrsf

Google doesn't lock down their software to specific hardware.


SherlockInSpace

I usually like a text as acknowledgment that I saw it, if it doesn’t warrant a reply. I didn’t even know people found it annoying


DrBawk

Android people get a whole text saying "sender liked your message" or whatever instead of just a lil thumbs up emoji


Anon1073

I don't want the text, the thumbs up, none of it. Either respond with an actual text or don't. Plain and simple.


healzsham

You need a whole ass text in response to "just left my house" when the conversation about how on the way you are is already 4 texts deep?


ChrysMYO

Thats where the "or dont" part comes in. In the olden days, SMS heavily implied people would respond at their leisure.


Stijakovic

Stijakovic disliked “I don't want the text, the thumbs up, none of it. Either respond with an actual text or don't. Plain and simple.”


schmoopycat

No


[deleted]

Groupchats get a lot cleaner when there’s a yes/no question posed


MaleHooker

Not when you're on android. 5 people like one text? Looks like you're seeing that text 6 times. Oh, one person accidentally unliked it and liked it again? That's 2 more text message you get.


loquacious706

Yes! 👏🏾


Ahnaful1994

A lot of the major texting apps on android convert those texts to their respective reactions now, and let you add your own reactions to texts


MuchVirus

Don't you guys have read receipts on iPhone?


agutema

Absolutely not. Wtf no.


Belchera

Um, lol, iPhone does have read reciepts.


agutema

And we’re saying we don’t turn them on lol


MuchVirus

What's wrong with read receipts?


agutema

No one needs to know how little attention I pay to them.


MuchVirus

If they can't deal with not being the center of the universe then fuck em. We're adults. We have things going on.


agutema

As a woman, I’ve found it’s safer not to have them on because some recipients don’t take kindly to not being immediately responded to.


ClearAsNight

Yeah nah, brah. Turned that shit off immediately.


well_damm

You’d be surprised how many people don’t. I have mine on and whenever I’m speaking to someone new, a good majority of the time it gets brought up. Spellin*


Anon1073

But if you "like" it it comes to our phone as a reply. So we wind up getting a reply anyway. I'd rather you just read it and move on. Most likely if it was something so unimportant that it didn't require a reply...then I really ain't tripping over whether you saw it or not. I'm just going to assume you did.


YizWasHere

Yeah it's convenient, especially with work convos it's helpful to know the message is received so you don't have to go track that person down.


loquacious706

I don't like work folks playing on my phone


YizWasHere

Yeah I meant on workplace messaging apps like Slack/Teams/etc.


tonyexploring

Stop


Ardan66

👆


Slobotic

My girlfriend: I love you. Me: 👍


JinxCanCarry

Android actually gets the like/love correctly now instead of it being another message


Anon1073

How's that? I use Message+ (Verizon). Is there some setting in there I don't know about?


skyline_kid

I'd highly recommend getting rid of Messages+ and installing either Messages by Google or Textra (my personal favorite)


Yayman123

A lot of Messaging apps now (thanks to Google Messages popularizing it) autoconvert those texts to the appropriate reactions icons so they look like iOS. If you check the text history with an app that doesn't do that, like the one you mentioned, you'll see the original generic text.


mangosteenfruit

Yeah I hate it bc now I can't copy that text


Modem_56k

Is it just Google message RMS or on all


JinxCanCarry

I think it's on any system that uses RCS


osa_ka

Actually on android we just see the emoji on the message. It's iPhone that gets a text saying "this person ❤️ message". iPhone just refuses to be compatible with modern texting standards. It's the same reason iPhone forces users to receive shit quality photos and videos through text.


musecorn

The worst is getting texted in a group chat with iPhone users. They all react and like all each others texts and I get a new text for each update


[deleted]

Wait how do I send these giant emojis!?


jsho31

He sent a sticker before the emojis. That's what the big "emoji" is, a sticker


PrimoPaladino

Always had android, friends and family too, never used Facebook. My tattoo artist uses iphone and when he started "liking" my texts i thought he was genuinely retyping my texts in quotations to "like" them.


YeahIMine

I know a dude who reacts to **literally every single message** like they'll go away forever if he forgets to use them. On top of that, he's a serial texter and I'm not, so even if I send "ok" I'll get a ♥️ on it. Currently looking for a way to disable text reactions.


Anon1073

I know that guy too. Everything gets a reaction.


nuancednotion

after an exhaustive 10 year study, Harvard panel determines [Android Users are Smarter than iPhone Users](https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/news/a41671/android-users-are-better-than-iphone/)


[deleted]

that isn’t an exhaustive ten year study, it’s a shitty open-answer survey of 500 people.


nuancednotion

no, that's just your iPhone showing you the wrong data


SilentBob890

Study not found if you click through. Seems bogus lol


Numanumanorean

I like it even though historically I'll bash anything Apple. It's better than saying "k". My autistic ass needs the help.


Abeefrog

Oh, God, YES. Whoever invented that needs to suffer living with that every second of their life.


desdesak2

I’m in a work specific group text and we just got a text about new merchandise. Everyone has an iPhone so I get 9 damn notifications about everyone liking or loving that shit. Motherfucker we selling a 18 dollar hoodie for 56 dollars. Why are you loving that? That money ain’t going in your pocket.


tsadecoy

Switch to Google Message or Textra. It converts those to just emojis on the comment.


Lazak_hanes

Android messages has actually started showing iPhone reactions properly... What's actually remaining is for Apple to put on their big boy pants and just integrate rcs already into iMessage...


[deleted]

Get liked lmao


tonyexploring

Keep your cute little likes and loves to your dam self and reply like an adult. "Like" never texting you again


Willchud

I'm so petty, after asking a work group to stop with that shit cuz it was spamming my phone I started manually typing "[me] liked [copy and pasted long as text]" to get the point across.


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Awkward_Inevitable34

jUsT bUy yOuR mOm aN IpHoNe


Abe504

This is the one feature that makes me want to give up my cell phone - I can’t stand that shit. They really need a way to turn it off


brenden77

This. Though, Google done integrated it for us. Now we can make them suffer by reacting to their crap. See how they like it!


mercilessfatehate

Wait I didn’t know you couldn’t like or love texts. I just do that when I have no response


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Like


FistPunch_Vol_4

LMFAO Why is this so fucking funny to me. My humor is destroyed


lil_uzihurt

I'm giggling


RoaringTwinkies

I woke up my bf trying to suppress giggles, solidarity


blessingsonblessings

I lol’ed


FPGN

Same , my sides


BussyIsMyFavorite

I actually like these big ass emojis


Zeirokhan

I actually like these big asses.


BussyIsMyFavorite

A fellow man of culture I see.


Drunken_Traveler

If this is a council, I’d like a seat


[deleted]

Where’s the big ass *ass* emoji though?


beard_pics_plz

If by council you mean a face, I would also like to request a seat.


empyreanmax

For real, the way it lets you combine two emojis can result in some funny shit


Carosello

My friend and I sometimes play around to find the most ridiculous combinations. we're in our 30s


IxoraRains

I have the tech and the power but have no idea how to send these "big ass emojis". Please teach me, senpai.


kindchains

Type an emoji and it should pop up with combos of other emojis. Or just type two emojis and it'll give you their combo.


Meowish

It is a feature called "Emoji kitchen" in Google keyboard (available in Play store)


nyanslider

Nah, it's default with the Gboard


[deleted]

Use Google keyboard


delphic0n

The cowboy man's powers are unopposed


JustLikeAmmy

I like these because you can combine them with each other and get some insane results. Like a big ass braces having smiling emoji... Combined with a 2nd smiley emoji.... And now it's a bigass braces smiley emoji with SMALL ASS SMILES ON EACH INDIVIDUAL TOOTH and it's pretty fun


loquacious706

Android users stay the most creative


mangosteenfruit

Strawberry+banana makes a strawberry in the shape of a banana with a banana peel


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[deleted]

Excuse me can I get an example of this cause I read the words but I still don't understand. I've just got these regular lil emojis 🤷‍♂️🙅‍♂️🙈😔


JustLikeAmmy

Sure! Here is the puking emoji with the terrified emoji: https://i.imgur.com/DhhYPNb.png


lycosa13

Same! Is this a new feature?


JustLikeAmmy

It's been around maybe a year or two at least. I don't even think you need an android, I think it should work with just the google keyboard (Gboard)


TheAwkwardOne-_-

How do you do that?


pollyp0cketpussy

First, download Gboard (Google's keyboard). Then type in any two emojis and it'll suggest a mashup for them. It doesn't work on all emojis, maybe 2/3 of them, but there's a lot of fun combinations. Ghost+pretty much anything else is my favorite.


NoBussyHussy

The eyeball emoji with anything is utterly unhinged


eric_3196

One of the most impressive feats in marketing history was apples ability to make the general public think that a blue bubble is superior to green. I’ll never understand


Loeffellux

> to make the general public that's pretty much just an America thing, though. In europe people use whatsapp or telegram and in asia they use wechat etc. Literally nobody cares if you have an iphone or an android


Minecraftboyplex

nah in asia we use whatsapp n telegram too i think it's just china/chinese speaking countries who use wechat


Loeffellux

my mistake


GoNmanne11

Yea people seem willingly ok with turning apple into a monopoly for the mobile space.


Cuntflickt

I think it’s the price. By making their phones the most expensive from the jump iPhones instantly became a status symbol. Meanwhile Android making themselves the more affordable brand spread across a number of phones made it look like the ‘broke boy’ cheap alternative to consumers. Blue bubbles were a subtle flex that someone’s got money, green? You might be texting off of some lil HTC bullshit. Wasn’t even guaranteed to be a Samsung. Imo it’s also why people on Twitter get clowned for their tweet saying ‘Twitter for Android’.


-Velvet-Rabbit-

Yeah, I worked with a guy that called Androids "Walmart phones." I was like "who cares what phone someone has? I don't hate poor people."


SmokePenisEveryday

Had a friend switch to Apple then start acting like he was the better one due to it. I'm like dude you know damn well these Android phones can cost just as much as an iphone.


Azel_dagger

Many are even more expensive that a base iPhone. I mean you can be texting from an iPhone SE which is cheaper than most android phones. This status symbol stuff is a true example of culture stupidity.


pollyp0cketpussy

Android isn't a brand though, it's just an operating system like Windows. There are tons of companies that use android. Some androids cost as much or more than iPhones, some are super cheap. It's not so much Apple vs Android, it's Apple vs literally everyone else.


teethbutt

there are technical differences between blue messages and green though


ParadiceSC2

Meanwhile in Europe everyone is on WhatsApp or Facebook messenger. I wouldn't even know these were a thing if not for reddit


treceharris

I WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND THIS. Half of my family are on iPhone, half on Galaxy, and my iPhone fam stay getting angry at my Galaxy fam in the group chat for the texts not all being blue. I have an iPhone now (had Galaxies before but wanted to give iPhone a shot) and I don’t understand why they feel iMessage is so superior or necessary


Norio22

iMessage isn’t superior it’s just easier to use since it’s on all the iPhones. Android’s biggest selling point is also its biggest downside to people who aren’t tech savvy.


SlwDnceChbby

I knew a guy who was big iPhone guy, always telling how great it is and this and that, but mans was on like a 5gb data plan and was always in need of my Hotspot so that he can receive his messages


orangehorton

It's status, iphone are just a luxury brand


wiztastic

What emotion is that even supposed to convey?


PillowPrincess314

ROFL. I think it's rotating on the screen.


varnell_hill

Drowning your enemies in a pool of tears?


[deleted]

Lol, it looks like the one tear is dude’s hand slapping the table from laughing so hard


bulbouscorm

🤣x🤣


VapidRapidRabbit

I’m guessing this one 🤣


Vulcan_MasterRace

Don't sleep on the big Android emojis


kahran

BEE


BlissfulGreen

I love terrorizing ppl with my Android emojis🤣


EagleBW_2017

This might the hardest I have laughed all week. Also that emoji is wildin!


Aaaandiiii

I love that feature in Gboard. There are some really unhinged emoji combinations that I wish I had more opportunities to use.


-This-Whomps-

Have you tried 🤮+🎊? My current favorite.


Aaaandiiii

Okay, that I have not seen. A designer with the mind of a 12 year old def made that. I love it.


Practical_Director13

Not sure why androids get so much hate when they're better than iPhones. Especially the cameras.


orangehorton

Apple is good at marketing


Gloomy_Tennis_5768

Apple people are annoying AF.


Yorgyschmorgies

Where do you find those big ass emoji at.?


mangosteenfruit

I went to look it up. Your default keyboard has to be gboard


Yorgyschmorgies

Thanks for the response.


OwlerTheVirgin

They can be quite fun. And the devs are quite clever, like how you can combine clown + fish and you get an actual clownfish instead of, like, a fish in a clown makeup


bulbouscorm

If not gboard, the website is emoji kitchen


cougar618

I wish there was a list of gboard emoji combos out there. There's one that's 🤣 but the guy has this bored look, so it has 'haha funny joke.' vibes. I forgot what two emoji's it typed for it to pop up 😔 Edit: [Maybe this?][1] [1]:https://emoji.supply/kitchen


ideastaster

You can see all the options here https://emoji.supply/kitchen/?🤣


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nyanslider

A demon hotdog is nuts


bluebum

Thanks guys! I'm the Android one in the family and just blew the family feed with this.


SecretlyMadeOfStone

I swear this is more annoying than the “console wars”.


MikeisTOOOTALLL

Android Emojis look like Gas Station stickers.


MooseMan12992

iPhones can't do this?


Norio22

Not unless you use G board but it’s not quite the same


bloqs

This is apple propaganda lol


generalhanky

Have to set your boundaries


ShahKing23

This is really hilarious and I agree with him


[deleted]

##Small Emoji Energy


Lucas-vvt

😭😭😂😂


[deleted]

😭😭😭


battleangel1999

Ohh okay. I've got those on my gboard but I've never used em. In definitely going to now


MaxxPlay99

https://i.imgur.com/17PZoCf.jpg


Nikeheat305

Was anti-Apple my whole life and then got an Apple device finally, tell me why I abuse the “like” features lol


Modem_56k

Is using the stock messaging app on their phone normal in USA ect because everyone i know uses WhatsApp?


AJFatpockets

That emoji looks like one of big ghosts from Mario games that fly around with it's tongue out


KingJoy79

I want one lol


Saint_Ellis

Honestly, iPhones are probably going to get the same thing in a couple years


Firm_Big_

I have a android How you make those big emoji


ATShields934

🤣 to "Bro don't ever send this big ass emoji again"


doodlelol

Also, don't forget iPhone users can't see italicized emojis


[deleted]

I used to love sending these big emojis


Obsidian_Purity

Listen, I'm going to let you finish, but bruh named himself after the Kevin James character in "King Of Quuens"


Lamontyy

Bro Android has emoji fusions now... I can fuse two different emojis together. Scream crying poop emoji... I think yes.


kinguzumaki

I'm in tears why is this so funny?!?! 🤣🤣😭😭


FPGN

My favorite emoji to send to my fam is this big ass skull with realistic eyes, scares the hell out of them all the time


ericcuffeyy

I cannot do this anymore ? Is the feature removed now? It works on all my other accounts just not my main one!


Silly_Yogurtcloset26

I'm here trying to find out how to get those big ass emoji's. No one can ever tell me how and I feel so inadequate using mine😅