Generally, when we talk about Gmail related news, These relate to new features aimed at improving safety and efficiency from the service. A quick look at the latest news we published in this regard will remind us of things like improved navigation, blue check, the arrival of a translator in your application, extra protection against risky actions, in short, notable changes that make the service more useful and reliable.

However sometimes There are much smaller changes that can make an interesting difference in everyday user experience. Of course, their customization depends on many factors, so for some it may be great news, for others it will be irrelevant. It’s even likely that there will be those who think it’s bad, even if I personally can’t empathize with the other person, because I’m more of a live-and-let-live school.

It is often said that language has evolved, but the truth is that this is true of communication much more generally. While text continues to be the predominant tool in certain channels (email, social media, instant messaging, etc.), other elements such as images, emoticons, animated gifs, and so on, In that sense, they gained a lot of weightwhich on many occasions do not become a supplement to the texts, but an alternative.

At Google, they are quite aware of this and the importance of providing this type of tools in their services. So as we can read on 9to5Google, Google is preparing emoji reactions to messages in Gmail. That way, when we receive a message that doesn’t require a reply, but we still want to give feedback to the sender, we can use a quick response similar to those already offered by most instant messaging services.

At the moment, there is no official information about this feature, and therefore, of course, when we can expect it to launch. However, given the state of maturity seen by those who have already been able to try it out, all indications are that its debut, at least in the Gmail app for Android, It should be pretty close, maybe even this October. Of course, there are also indications that its deployment will be gradual.

So when both the sender and recipient already have the feature, the response is shown to the sender in the same message, but if the recipient has the feature but the sender doesn’t, the other will receive a reaction emoticon in a new email message electronic in response to the one in which he responded.