Published on: 2025-05-31 09:03:00
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Screen Effects add some big screen-filling animations to your Google Messages chats. So far, Screen Effects have been activated by using specific text trigger phrases. Messages now appears to respond similarly when you send pairs of certain emoji. Update, March 25, 2025 (01:03 PM ET): We’ve been working to identify all the emoji pairs that manage to activate these full-screen animations, and here are the ones that we’re seeing trigger Screen Effects:
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Ryan Haines / Android Authority Usually, when my friends hype up Apple’s iMessage, all they care about is showing up as blue bubbles on each other’s screens. And, for most people, that’s good enough — they want to include all of their iPhone-carrying friends in the same group chats, ignoring that RCS now makes pretty much every group chat feel the same, whether green or blue. However, that only scratches the surface of what iMessage can do. Once you move past the fact that you can react with e
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Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR Google has taken a massive step towards fixing the animation issues that have plagued third-party launchers on Pixel phones for years. The fixes are currently rolling out as part of the March 2025 update. In our tests, animations are now far smoother on Niagara and Nova Launcher, however, some issues remain. Third-party launchers have never felt smooth on Google’s Pixel hardware. Whether by design or due to technical issues, there always seems to be a
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