Reactions in Text Conversations
If a contact reacts to one of your texts from an iPhone, you'll see a small emoji on that message, the way it looks in Messages on an iPhone.
Why reactions arrive as texts
On an iPhone, people can press and hold a message to react to it with a heart, thumbs up, thumbs down, laugh, exclamation marks, question mark or any emoji. When the conversation is with a phone number that isn’t using iMessage, which includes every TriLuna number, the iPhone sends the reaction as an ordinary text, for example:
Loved “See you Tuesday!”
The wording follows the language the contact’s iPhone is set to, so a contact whose phone is in Spanish, French or Japanese sends it in that language.
How TriLuna shows them
On the SMS Messages page, TriLuna recognizes these reaction texts in English and more than 30 other languages an iPhone can be set to, and:
- Attaches the emoji to the message it’s about. The reaction text itself is hidden, and a small emoji appears on the corner of the original message.
- Keeps only the latest reaction. If the contact changes their reaction, the new emoji replaces the old one. If they remove it, the emoji goes away.
- Shows it in the conversation list. The preview reads
❤️ “See you Tuesday!”instead of the raw reaction text.
If TriLuna can’t find the message being reacted to (for example, it was sent from a different number), the reaction stays visible as a normal text so nothing is lost.
Your AI agent doesn’t reply to reactions
A reaction isn’t a reply, so it never triggers an automatic response, reminder confirmation or callback. Your agent only answers real messages.