Twitter is pouring a little more fuel on the messaging fire. It has added a heart+ button to its direct messaging interface, which lets users shortcut to a pop-up menu of seven emoji reactions so they ...

Our online conversations are riddled with emoji, and while the amusing characters can be a creative way to express certain concepts between friends, how they’re interpreted can be a giant legal ...

The Messages app is getting a ton of new features in iOS 10. At WWDC, Apple senior vice president of Software Engineering Craig Federighi showed a number of new additions to the Messages app including ...

Apple announced a bunch of new features for iMessage in iOS 17. This includes emoji tapbacks and a new emoji stickers interface. The little-used iMessage apps have also been hidden away behind a ...

When words fall short, emojis reign supreme. Sometimes, adding an extra sprinkle of emotion and love to our messages is all you need to go the extra mile. With so many different heart emojis, there ...

After testing new delivered/read indicators and a photo picker redesign, Google Messages is beginning to roll out full emoji reactions for some users. For some time now, long-pressing on an RCS chat ...

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After several months of testing, Google Messages users on Android are now able to see emoji that iPhone users send. In a blog post on Thursday morning, Google revealed that the feature to translate ...

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The latest update to Google Messages prepares for a new way to handle the annoying iMessage reaction messages often seen in mixed group chats. Update: This feature has already begun rolling out for ...

Some Google Messages app users already have access to full emoji reactions. It seems like Google started rolling out the feature, at least via the beta channel. What does that mean, exactly? Well, ...