Google to add emoji reactions to its Android Gmail app (and how to enable them) (9to5google.com)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world to c/android@lemmy.world

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They're intended to work and look like your usual Discord or similar emoji reactions, as long as it's between Gmail users:

To non-Gmail users, those reactions would appear as regular email replies with a big emoji:

I don't know how to feel about it personally, it's the kind of feature that seems completely detached from reality as that's certainly not how most people use emails, and the only thing it will create is more email garbage filling up your inbox.

EDIT: The person who found about the feature first (assembledebug) also added how to enable it:

Ben forgot to mention how it can be enabled 🙂 ?

You need a rooted phone and need to flip a switch of a flag using GappsMod.

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[-] smallaubergine@kbin.social 34 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

But why? Gmail (and email in general) is, to me, for long form communication and professional communication. Emoji are the opposite of that

[-] HubertManne@kbin.social 14 points 9 months ago

came to the thread because I felt this exact same sentiment. Talk about a solution looking for the problem.

[-] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 30 points 9 months ago

Step one in trying to turn gmail into a slack/teams frankenstein thing.

[-] trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago

Our gmail at work already has chats/spaces (very badly) integrated

idk if it's the Gmail app in chromeOS or some specific distribution of it for companies?

[-] skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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[-] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 21 points 9 months ago

Oh boy, let me hurry up and root my phone so I can finally have emojis in my... emails

[-] db2@sopuli.xyz 19 points 9 months ago

Gross. No.

[-] Scrollone@feddit.it 16 points 9 months ago

Thanks, I hate it.

Fuck Google, just stick to the standards.

They're doing the same thing Apple does with iMessage and Google complains about

[-] skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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[-] Midnitte@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago

Also I'm totally fine with Outlook adding this (as they have).

Some emails just need a 👍🏻, not an actual response.

[-] FrankTheHealer@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago

Was literally anybody asking for this?

[-] AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 13 points 9 months ago

Outlook does this and it's stupid and useless.

So is this.

[-] Granixo@feddit.cl 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Why can't Google just let me install Gmail Go on my phone?

I just don't care at all about these useless "features".

[-] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 12 points 9 months ago

Just use K-9 mail or other email clients, no one's forcing you to use Gmail.

[-] Granixo@feddit.cl 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I will try it out!

I originally used MyMail as an alternative to Gmail, but when i eventually discovered it's garbage collection was even worse than Gmail's, i switched back.

[-] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 9 points 9 months ago

💯

👍

🤣

[-] hperrin@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

There is a standard that Delta Chat uses to do the same thing. I’d bet $50 they are not using that standard.

[-] dingleberry@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 9 months ago

Unless it's open source, they have no reason to. In fact given Google's influence and size, whatever Google decides, will become standard.

[-] skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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[-] hperrin@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

They are. It’s just a new email header. It’s defined in an experimental RFC:

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9078

And I can tell Google is not following this spec, because the content is more than just a single line of emoji character(s).

[-] skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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[-] hperrin@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Ah, ok. Maybe Google is following the spec then. We can hope.

I remember reading somewhere that Delta used this spec specifically, but I could be wrong.

[-] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 5 points 9 months ago

To non-Gmail users, those reactions would appear as regular email replies with a big emoji

The second I ever see one of these in my inbox, I'm adding a rule to auto-trash any message containing "X reacted via Gmail"

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