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Apple, just let us do tapbacks with whatever emoji we want.

I had been optimistic about the new sticker reactions, but based on Jason Snell’s writeup about them in the iOS 17.2 beta, they don’t sound great.

Emoji reactions are one area where Google Messages has Apple beat.

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