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Android users’ text message bubbles show up green, and you can’t send the “tapback” reactions (or rather, they show up as a “so and so has liked your post” rath

Android users’ text message bubbles show up green, and you can’t send the “tapback” reactions (or rather, they show up as a “so and so has liked your post” rather than a thumbs up icon). This is annoying for Android users and it’s kind of tedious for iPhone users to have to vet group chats to see if there is a single Android user who might be annoyed. Apparently this is factoring into people’s phone purchasing calculus.

alphabetting 4y ago
It actually only shows the "so and so has liked your post" on Apple devices unless they've changed it recently. In Google messages you see the reactions from iphone users as they should be shown.
- throwaway894345 4y ago
  Whoa, that’s great to hear. My Android-user friend said otherwise, but maybe she was misinformed or I misunderstood or something.
  - alphabetting 4y ago
    Maybe an old version of android but this has what it's look like on Google Messages. Think it changed sometime in the past year. https://i.imgur.com/GYHMkHy.png https://i.imgur.com/GYHMkHy.png
    - throwaway894345 4y ago
      Yeah, this was based on a months-old conversation, so I wouldn't be surprised if the feature just hadn't shipped yet or some such.
- rootusrootus 4y ago
  Tapbacks on text messages work on the iPhone side too. I just had the occasion to try that a few days ago.
  - alphabetting 4y ago
    It doesn't say "so and so has liked your post" on Iphone when someone has Android in a group chat now?
    - rootusrootus 4y ago
      That's not the permutation I tried, so maybe in group chats it still happens that way. But in a 1:1 chat it worked fine.
rajbot 4y ago
All incoming texts, whether sms or iMessage, show up in a gray bubble. Only your own outgoing texts are in a colored bubble
- salt-thrower 4y ago
  That's patently incorrect. Incoming texts from my Android-user contacts are green bubbles. Incoming texts from my iPhone-user contacts are blue. Source: I'm looking at my iPhone right now.
  - rajbot 4y ago
    No, your iPhone does not magically work differently than everyone else’s.
  - colinmhayes 4y ago
    I think you should look again. Source: looking at my iPhone right now.

alphabetting 4y ago

It actually only shows the "so and so has liked your post" on Apple devices unless they've changed it recently. In Google messages you see the reactions from iphone users as they should be shown.

throwaway894345 4y ago
Whoa, that’s great to hear. My Android-user friend said otherwise, but maybe she was misinformed or I misunderstood or something.
- alphabetting 4y ago
  Maybe an old version of android but this has what it's look like on Google Messages. Think it changed sometime in the past year. https://i.imgur.com/GYHMkHy.png https://i.imgur.com/GYHMkHy.png
  - throwaway894345 4y ago
    Yeah, this was based on a months-old conversation, so I wouldn't be surprised if the feature just hadn't shipped yet or some such.
rootusrootus 4y ago
Tapbacks on text messages work on the iPhone side too. I just had the occasion to try that a few days ago.
- alphabetting 4y ago
  It doesn't say "so and so has liked your post" on Iphone when someone has Android in a group chat now?
  - rootusrootus 4y ago
    That's not the permutation I tried, so maybe in group chats it still happens that way. But in a 1:1 chat it worked fine.

rajbot 4y ago

All incoming texts, whether sms or iMessage, show up in a gray bubble. Only your own outgoing texts are in a colored bubble

salt-thrower 4y ago
That's patently incorrect. Incoming texts from my Android-user contacts are green bubbles. Incoming texts from my iPhone-user contacts are blue. Source: I'm looking at my iPhone right now.
- rajbot 4y ago
  No, your iPhone does not magically work differently than everyone else’s.
- colinmhayes 4y ago
  I think you should look again. Source: looking at my iPhone right now.