Apple, please stop announcing people's emoji reactions in my AirPods

Apple has been committing a grave injustice against us for years, and it's period person speaks up and voices what the group have felt powerless to say. That brave individual is me.

The issue is that iMessage reactions — specified as person liking a content alongside the thumbs-up emoji — keep playing in my AirPods. There have to be a way to rotate this off.

Here's the problem. If you get an iMessage during wearing your headphones, your phone volition province it: "From [name]: communication here." That's really helpful and helpful! I discover this characteristic fantastic.

However, whenever I'm wearing my AirPods, I'm typically not looking at my phone — I'm strolling around, listening to a podcast during doing dishes or at the gym. These are all times I desire to cognize if I got a new content — perchance I'm at the market shop and my hubby texts me to say we need additional eggs. Great! Let those notifications rip! I affection it!!!

But you cognize what I do NOT need to know? If person reacted alongside the bosom emoji to a communication in a collection chat.

Reactions in iMessage are great. They're extremely efficient: sometimes you fair desire to provision a thumbs-up to let person cognize you acknowledged the message, or a bosom to display you value a baby photo or what have you. Apple, I salute you: this was a awesome feature. You really cooked alongside this one.

However, there is no way to rotate off notifications for fair those reactions — you can rotate off announcements of all messages in your headphones, but afterward it method you won't comprehend the "hey can you additionally choice up eggs" text.

The emoji notice issue in AirPods is akin to another matter that lengthy plagued iMessage: if person isn't on an iPhone, the reactions would arrive in as distinct messages altogether. One Android in the collection and a green content bubble meant full-on anarchy in the chat.

I have a extremely energetic collection conversation alongside a bunch of allies who are bigtime emoji reply users, but one companion is on Android, which method it's a green bubble chat. For years, this meant that the emoji reactions were a nightmare for her — so much that she muted the collection and would lone rarely inspect in. Thankfully, in 2024, Apple mostly fixed this issue by embracing a texting protocol called Rich Communications Services. The result? Green texts could use emoji reactions normally now. See? Progress can happen!

John Ternus, if you desire to really create a scatter as Apple CEO, I have a recommendation for you: fix this. Make a toggle toggle in the Notifications settings of the Messages app so you can rotate off emoji reply announcements.

I reached out to Apple to ask if this is item they're considering adding. I'll let you cognize if I comprehend back!