iOS 18 will introduce not less than two adjustments to the Tapback characteristic within the Messages app on the iPhone, in keeping with Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman.
Launched with iOS 10, Tapback icons are the guts, thumbs up, thumbs down, “HA HA” image, exclamation marks, and query mark that may be added to messages. In a report outlining his WWDC expectations, Gurman mentioned these icons will look extra colourful on iOS 18, whereas they at the moment have very primary designs.
Extra considerably, he mentioned the Tapback system will work with any emoji beginning on iOS 18, offering customers with tons of of recent choices to select from. This implies the Messages app would lastly assist in-line emoji reactions, a characteristic that different messaging apps like WhatsApp, Messenger, and Telegram have supplied for a very long time. At present, the Messages app solely permits emoji to be added to messages as stickers.
It’s unclear if the revamped Tapback system can even work with the AI-generated emoji characteristic beforehand reported to be coming with iOS 18.
One other much-requested characteristic coming to the Messages app with iOS 18 is the power to schedule a message to be despatched later, in keeping with Gurman.
Apple will unveil iOS 18 and different main software program updates for its platforms throughout its WWDC keynote, which shall be stay streamed by way of the Apple Occasions web site, YouTube, Apple TV app, and Apple Developer app on June 10 beginning at 10 a.m. Pacific Time. The brand new Messages options would prolong to the iPad and Mac.