Google Messages gets emojis, voice message, other WhatsApp-like features

Google Messages app for Android is getting new features, including emoji reactions, stickers in Smart Reply, media editor integration, voice messages, and video calling integration. These features have been available on other messaging apps like WhatsApp but long been missing from Google Messages. With the new updates, the Messaging app for Android is finally catching up with other messaging services, including instant messaging platforms. Take a look the Google Messages new features and how they work:

Emoji reactions

The Google Messages app now lets you react to photo, video and chat message through emojis. To use an emoji reaction, long press on the message you want to react to and a pop-up box opens up with different animated expressionsreaction to choose from, like, love, laughter, surprise, sadness, anger and dislike. This feature, however, works only if you have RCS chat enabled.