Apple introduced iMessage reactions, called Tapback, with iOS 10 in 2016. The feature lets you react to a message in one of six ways; a heart, thumbs up or down, a “Haha,” exclamation points or a question mark. However, some people might be confused or irritated when they see someone react to their message.
Here’s how to use an emoji to react to specific messages on your iPhone.
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How to react with emoji
1. In the appropriate iMessage conversation, tap the blank iMessage bar across the bottom of your screen like you’re going to type something.
2. Tap the emoji keyboard icon — the smiley icon — in the bottom left corner of your screen.
3. Long press on the emoji you want to use.
4. Drag the emoji to the message and release it.
Now, instead of giving something a thumbs-up or an exclamation point reaction, you can give the raised hands emoji, the eyes emoji or even both. You can use multiple emoji to react to messages, pictures and gifs sent in conversations between you and another person, or in group messages.
You can also use this feature to combine emoji. To do this, you have to layer emoji on top of a sticker in iMessage. Here’s how to create your own emoji combos.
Layer emoji over stickers for fun combos
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