I do a fair amount of texting and I’ve only gotten a couple of these. For example,
You: Did you go see that movie about the monster that devoured Cleveland?
Me: Yes! My favorite part was when he ate the golfers like they were popcorn!
You: Loved “Yes! My favorite part was when he ate the golfers like they were popcorn!”
The reply is “Loved” and then my entire previous reply in quotation marks.
I assume this is some kind of one-button auto-reply if people use it in place of even a simple thumbs-up or smilie. Is it strictly an iPhone thing? I can’t find that option in Textra, the Android text app that I use.
So if I were on an iPhone, I’d get the thumbs-up or some emoji and NOT my whole text quoted. But because I’m on Android, I get the word “Loved,” no emoji, and my whole message quoted?
I’m guessing that people who have iPhones mostly don’t know this, and when they click that option they think the recipient is getting the thumbs-up or the smiley instead of the robotic text reply. Or maybe they assume everyone has an iPhone.
I get “loved” etc. rather than an emoji when someone with an iPhone “loves” my text or photo only in group conversations including a non-iPhone user. If it’s all iPhones, I get the heart or the “haha” right on the text or image like
But what if an iPhone user actually goes to the emoji panel/menu (like we have here on the board) and selects an emoji? I’m guessing this “Loved <whatever>” thing is the result of using a particular shortcut to “send reaction.” I have friends with iPhones and I also just get regular emojis from them.
Liked “iPhone has the option to send reactions to a text – “love” “thumbs up” “ha-ha” etc. If you’re not on iPhone, you get the kind of response you got.”
You can send an emoji on iphone and it’ll just send the emoji. But you can press and hold on someone else’s text and it’ll bring up a menu of five or six “reactions” which is what you’re experiencing.
I used to use Textra, and really like it, but a few years ago I switched to the Google’s Messages app, because it supports RCS, and seems to work better on my Google phone.
Anyway, very recently, like the last few weeks, Messages has started supported putting the reaction on the appropriate message. I just tested it with my wife, and her iPhone appeared on the appropriate message on my Android.
In the past I have gotten the “Loved '[quoted text]” thing.
This is changing in Android 12L. The messages app will be able to translate those iphone reactions. There’s still a few bugs to work out, but it should be coming sooner rather than later.
It’s the insipid “Like” button taken to new levels of moronic laziness. Even worse when you send someone a picture of your grandmother (or whatever) and the reply is “Loved an image.”
One time I sent a text I saw that movie.
The reply was : Loved “I saw that movie.”
Mercifully bereft of an iPhone, I typed out my counter reply: Loved Loved “I saw that movie.”
My recipient didn’t take the bait. Too bad- it could’ve been Loved’s all the way down.
That’s EGG-zackly what I wanted to know. Very clear reply. Thanks.
