The emoji comments feature, which was introduced last month Google Messages has had a love-hate relationship between its users. Some users like the animated reactions that fill the entire screen, while others find them annoying. Well, for the latter group of people, Google may soon introduce a toggle to disable expressive responses.

The latest version of Google Messages beta version v20240422_01_RC00 has a string of code that says “show expressive animations”. Google is testing a new toggle that will allow users to turn off screen reactions and effects in the Messages app.

The reaction effects in Google Messages allow you to respond to a text message with 10 different emojis, such as thumbs up, thumbs down, heart, crying, laughing, party popper, tears of joy or laughter, surprise or shock, poop, angry, or angry. The feature is similar to iMessage’s emoji comments.

Now, it seems Google has understood the plea of ​​users who hate the animated comments feature with the new button now spotted in the APK teardown of the latest Google Messages beta version. This is what the string looks like:

Show expressive animations

It It is a simple transition to disable expressive animations in Google Messages and does not allow you to make individual changes, such as turning off a specific response, etc. As pointed out by me 9To5GoogleThe replacement may also affect animated emoji.

This is not the first time that Google has brought back a feature it introduced to the app. Recently, he took back the most disliked UI feature, where he separated the chat box and the bottom bar as a double composition box. Fortunately, the two-line message text box has been updated back to a a single line.

It now remains to be seen when Google Messages gets the ability to disable expressive responses. Since this is in the current beta version, its release may be near.