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How to Love a Text Message on Android Personalize your conversations with a “love” reaction Co-authored by Darlene Antonelli, MA Reviewed by Anyah Le Gilmore-Jones
Last Updated: December 11, 2025
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This article was reviewed by Anyah Le Gilmore-Jones and by wikiHow staff writer, Darlene Antonelli, MA. Anyah Gilmore-Jones is a Social Media Marketing Expert based in Nashville, Tennessee. An innovative experiential and social media marketer, Anyah is skilled at creating engaging brand experiences and leverages her passion for connecting people and ideas to drive organic growth for purpose-driven brands. As the founder of GROW by Gilmore, a social media strategy company, Anyah develops data-driven social media strategies focused on authentic community building. She has over 4 years of experience spearheading viral campaigns and producing content for brands like HBCU Buzz, Black & Scholared, SHEIN, and Project Art Collective. She received her BA from Howard University in Political Science and Government. This article has been viewed 59,679 times.
Did that text resonate with you? With Google Messenger on Android, you can add a reaction like a heart to a text to show that you loved it and this wikiHow article teaches you how.
Quick Guide to Loving a Text on Android
Open the Google Messenger app.
Tap and hold the message you want to react to. (Let go after you see a menu with different reactions.)
Tap on the heart-eye emoji to "Love" react.
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How to Love a Text on Android
1 Open Google Messenger. This app icon features a white speech bubble on a blue background.
This will only work in Google Messenger, which is a free app. It's not the default texting app for some phones, like Samsungs. If you don't have the app, you can download it for free from the Google Play Store. When you open it for the first time after using a different text messenger, you'll be prompted to set it as your default messenger.
Everyone in the chat must have an Android with RCS enabled.
2 Tap and hold the message that you want to react to. You can let go of the screen when you see a menu with different facial reactions appear. Advertisement
3 Tap to choose the face with the eye-hearts emoji. This indicates that you love the message, but you can choose between thumbs up, love, laugh, shocked, sad, angry, and thumb down reactions.
Your choice of emoji reaction will appear in the bottom left corner of the message.
Change the reaction by tapping and holding the message again and tapping a new emoji when the menu appears.
You can remove your reaction by tapping and holding the message again, then tapping the highlighted emoji in the menu.[1]XResearch source
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What are the limitations?
Phone ecosystems, like between Apple and Android, prevent smooth data transfer. When data is sent between an iPhone and Android, information is lost, like Apple's Tapbacks. These send as individual texts instead that encompasses what the original user sent.
For example, if an iPhone user responds to a text with balloons, the Android will get a text message that says, "Sent with Balloons."
The Google Messages app got an update that shows these responses as emojis, so an iPhone user responding to a text with a balloon will be sent as a text message of a balloon emoji.[2]XResearch source
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Reviewed by: Anyah Le Gilmore-Jones Social Media Marketing Expert This article was reviewed by Anyah Le Gilmore-Jones and by wikiHow staff writer, Darlene Antonelli, MA. Anyah Gilmore-Jones is a Social Media Marketing Expert based in Nashville, Tennessee. An innovative experiential and social media marketer, Anyah is skilled at creating engaging brand experiences and leverages her passion for connecting people and ideas to drive organic growth for purpose-driven brands. As the founder of GROW by Gilmore, a social media strategy company, Anyah develops data-driven social media strategies focused on authentic community building. She has over 4 years of experience spearheading viral campaigns and producing content for brands like HBCU Buzz, Black & Scholared, SHEIN, and Project Art Collective. She received her BA from Howard University in Political Science and Government. This article has been viewed 59,679 times. How helpful is this? Co-authors: 4Updated: December 11, 2025 Views: 59,679 Categories: AndroidArticle SummaryX
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Reviewed by: Anyah Le Gilmore-Jones Social Media Marketing Expert This article was reviewed by Anyah Le Gilmore-Jones and by wikiHow staff writer, Darlene Antonelli, MA. Anyah Gilmore-Jones is a Social Media Marketing Expert based in Nashville, Tennessee. An innovative experiential and social media marketer, Anyah is skilled at creating engaging brand experiences and leverages her passion for connecting people and ideas to drive organic growth for purpose-driven brands. As the founder of GROW by Gilmore, a social media strategy company, Anyah develops data-driven social media strategies focused on authentic community building. She has over 4 years of experience spearheading viral campaigns and producing content for brands like HBCU Buzz, Black & Scholared, SHEIN, and Project Art Collective. She received her BA from Howard University in Political Science and Government. This article has been viewed 59,679 times. How helpful is this? Co-authors: 4 Updated: December 11, 2025 Views: 59,679 Categories: Android Article SummaryX
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1 Open Google Messenger. This app icon features a white speech bubble on a blue background. 
2 Tap and hold the message that you want to react to. You can let go of the screen when you see a menu with different facial reactions appear. Advertisement 
3 Tap to choose the face with the eye-hearts emoji. This indicates that you love the message, but you can choose between thumbs up, love, laugh, shocked, sad, angry, and thumb down reactions. 
Phone ecosystems, like between Apple and Android, prevent smooth data transfer. When data is sent between an iPhone and Android, information is lost, like Apple's Tapbacks. These send as individual texts instead that encompasses what the original user sent.