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Google Messages for Android finally gets iMessage reaction feature
Message reaction is like a trend for all messengers nowadays. Various social media applications, such as Instagram, Twitter, Telegram offer this feature. iOS on the other hand provides its own message reaction feature in iMessage called Tapbacks.
iMessage Reaction is one of the notable features Apple provides to its devices. It allows users to express their sentiments for that particular message. Of course, most Android users want to have it and finally, it seems that their wishes have come true.
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Back in November, we’ve been reported that Google is working on an option to properly display iMessage responses on Android devices. Now the company has begun releasing iMessage reaction for Android through a beta update.
Once your Android device received this feature, Google Messages will automatically convert Tapbacks that iPhone users send in response to SMS/MMS. You can see the response at the lower right corner of the message bubble.
Moreover, the Google Messages iMessage reaction comes with some amazing tweaks in the conversion process. For example:
- “Heart” becomes the “Smiling Face with Heart-Eyes” emoji 😍
- “Haha” reaction becomes “Face with Tears of Joy” 😂
- “Exclamation marks” becomes “Face with Open Mouth” 😮
- “Question mark” becomes “Thinking Face” 🤔
At the same time, thumbs up 👍 and thumps down 👎 remain faithful to their iMessage counterparts. It looks like Google is trying to send a different meaning by converting the symbols to face emojis. It could be because the faces come off as more playful.
Google Messages iMessage reaction: Availability
Moving on, as mentioned above, the iMessage reactions are currently released for Google Messages beta users and will soon roll out widely (via 9to5Google). Android users can manually enable this feature from the Messages overflow menu >> Settings >> Advanced.
Google app has added a new Sports widget for Android users, which lets you follow the teams and games that interest you. The Sports widget is currently available in the beta version of the Google app 14.49.38.29.
The Sports widget is similar to the Finance Watchlist widget that Google introduced earlier this year. It shows the upcoming, live, or past matches of the teams you follow in cards with the date, time, score, and league. You can tap on any card to open the full details of the game in Google Search.
The widget has two views: “Your games” and “Trending games”. The first shows the games of the teams you selected, while the other shows the popular or relevant games based on your search activity.
The widget also supports Dynamic Color, which adapts the widget’s background color to your wallpaper. You can resize the widget to fit your home screen and refresh it manually from the top-right corner.
Today, Dr.diary announced that it has partnered with Samsung to provide real-time blood sugar tracking through the Health app. Samsung’s Health app is now integrated with Dr.diary app so users can easily share their life log data.
Samsung Health shares blood pressure, steps, and sleep data, and Doctor Diary shares blood sugar info. Using a continuous glucose monitor (CGM), it tracks the user’s blood sugar level in real-time and shows the impact of diet, exercise, stress, and sleep on health.
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Dr.diary has a community where people share health management methods and chronic disease concerns and provides specialized content for managing blood sugar and blood pressure. Customers who linked the Samsung Health and Doctor Diary apps were selected by lottery and given the Galaxy Z Flip 5 and Buds 2.
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Samsung’s Camera Assistant module was initially released for select flagship Galaxy devices. Over the past few months, the company expanded the Good Lock plugin’s availability to various devices. Well, we’ve compiled a list of Samsung smartphones that support Camera Assistant.
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Since the Camera Assistant is gradually making its way to eligible Samsung smartphones, we recommend you bookmark this post to stay connected with the latest insights. We will update the list as soon as a new Galaxy gains support for the camera customization plugin.
These Galaxies support Camera Assistant:
- Galaxy S20/S20+/S20 Ultra
- Galaxy S20 FE (LTE/5G)
- Galaxy S21/S21+/S21 Ultra
- Galaxy S21 FE
- Galaxy S22/S22+/S22 Ultra
- Galaxy S23/S23+/S23 Ultra
- Galaxy S23 FE
- Galaxy Note 20/Note 20 Ultra
- Galaxy Z Fold 2
- Galaxy Z Fold 3
- Galaxy Z Fold 4
- Galaxy Z Fold 5
- Galaxy Z Flip
- Galaxy Z Flip 3
- Galaxy Z Flip 4
- Galaxy Z Flip 5
- Galaxy A54
- Galaxy A53
How to install and use Camera Assistant on your Galaxy
Samsung’s Camera Assistant app is available for eligible Galaxy devices on the Galaxy Store app (download link). Simply, download and install the plugin and you will get it right at the bottom of your Galaxy phone’s Camera settings section.
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