SearchBuilding upon the prior article on Digital Touch coming in the new iOS 10 release this Fall, let’s turn now to an interesting feature also part of the messaging package: inline reactions.
This new feature allows you to react to messages without sending a new message back. I can’t help but feel a thread of lineage that goes back to Facebooks “like” and stickers feature when I see this. By long-pressing (but not too hard for those with force touch devices) on a received message, you can give it a thumbs-up (or down).
At first this really had me confused and wondering where the applicability was. But once I got my hands on it and was able to use it in a real session back and forth with someone, I realized that this adds a nice parallel communications channel that is typically lost or shoe-horned into the typical conversation flow.
For instance, I get general “LOL” reactions to comments that pop in just as I hit send on a new message. If I am not paying attention,it could look like someone finds it hilarious that I am sharing some tragic bit of news instead of the prior bit where I was talking about accidentally smacking my knee on a table.
Will it take some getting used to? Definitely. Does it add a lot to the conversation? Let’s just see. What do you think?
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