One feature that's part of Google's payback to Apple is that now, when Messages users react to an SMS text with an emoji, iPhone users will get a text saying the other person reacted to their text with a description of whatever emoji the person used.

iPhones exchange messages using iMessage, Apple's proprietary messaging system, but revert to SMS when texting an Android. But these features and some other updates to Messages are RCS-enabled, meaning they're not going to be very compatible with SMS, which is the texting standard that iMessage switches to when messaging someone without an iPhone. Google Messages' new features include the ability to reply to individual messages, star them, and set reminders on texts. The updates are great if you're an Android user. 'Google is giving Apple a taste of its own medicine,' reports Business Insider, arguing that the latest update to Android's messaging app 'is going to make texting between iPhone and Androids even more annoying than it already is.'

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