Emojis should spread joy not frustration
Users are reporting a persistent Google Messages bug
It repeatedly asks for an emoji reaction to images in chats
The issue may be limited to users running the beta app
We’re seeing multiple reports of a rather annoying emoji reaction bug in Google Messages – one that prompts you to apply a reaction to the last received message before you can do anything else, if the last message in the chat was an image.
These reports surfaced on Reddit (via Android Police) in the last few days, and it seems quite a few users have come across them. It doesn’t really break the app, but it does make for a more frustrating user experience.
Emoji reactions were added to Google Messages last year, one of several upgrades rolled out to the app recently to help it catch up to the other popular messaging services out there, including WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and iMessage.
