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You Can Now React to iMessages With Emojis and Stickers
Not every text message needs a written response. If someone said something funny, you hit them with a “Haha” reaction. If you’re good with a proposed plan, reaction with a thumbs up sends the same message as, “Sounds good!” That’s why reactions are so useful. Since iOS 10, Apple has given us six different Tapback…
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How to Fix Slow Messaging on Your Pixel
Messaging is supposed to be instant: You send a message, and the recipient reads it in seconds. They send you a reply, you know what’s up moments later. But if your messages send and receive as if by horseback, things start to get frustrating. That’s what’s plaguing some Pixel users lately, as MMS messages with…
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Finally, Android Users Can Turn iMessage Reactions Into Emoji
While there are some who will fight tooth and nail to say whether iOS or Android is the superior smartphone platform, most of us can get along just fine with one another, green bubbles be damned. What isn’t fun is when iMessage reactions from iPhones (called Tapbacks) come into Android as a full text. What…
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How Your Emojis Are Being (Mis)Interpreted If You’re Texting People Under 25
1As of this month, there are 3,633 “official” emojis available across the world. The tiny pictographs can convey tons of emotions and ideas, but like any form of symbolic communications, their meanings change over time and among different groups of people — especially if one group is millennials and the other is Gen Z. Something…