# Reactions to Messages

**URL:** <https://forum.delta.chat/t/reactions-to-messages/2001>\
**Category:** Feature Proposal\
**Tags:** tablet, desktop, android, ios\
**Created:** [January 27, 2022, 8:27am UTC](https://forum.delta.chat/t/reactions-to-messages/2001 "2022-01-27T08:27:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
**Page:** 1

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**Author:** ![gotjoshua](https://forum.delta.chat/user_avatar/forum.delta.chat/gotjoshua/32/1379_2.png) [@gotjoshua](https://forum.delta.chat/u/gotjoshua)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2022, 8:27am UTC](https://forum.delta.chat/t/reactions-to-messages/2001/1 "2022-01-27T08:27:32Z")

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## Expected behavior

Add an emoji to a message as a reaction  
Add a tag (or list of tags) to a message as a reaction

## Actual behavior

All we can do is reply

## Example Images

like discord reactions:

 ![DiscordEmojis](https://support.delta.chat/uploads/default/original/2X/5/5d5e8772d245673c0ba1197b757fbc426b2b3cfb.png)

and gitlab labels:  
 ![GitlabLabels](https://support.delta.chat/uploads/default/original/2X/c/c781300d1ca3a86c79da6fd0825470bcaae83a79.png)

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**Author:** ![anon43200645](https://forum.delta.chat/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/3ec8ea/32.png) [@anon43200645](https://forum.delta.chat/u/anon43200645)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2022, 5:55pm UTC](https://forum.delta.chat/t/reactions-to-messages/2001/2 "2022-01-27T17:55:36Z")

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Even Element, Signal, Telegram… when W.App will implement it, this will be a new standard.  
I don’t need it but DC must be ready to do this (if possible).

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**Author:** ![Simon](https://forum.delta.chat/user_avatar/forum.delta.chat/simon/32/287_2.png) [@Simon](https://forum.delta.chat/u/Simon)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2022, 2:29pm UTC](https://forum.delta.chat/t/reactions-to-messages/2001/3 "2022-01-28T14:29:24Z")

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There is already a RFC for it: [RFC 9078 - Reaction: Indicating Summary Reaction to a Message](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc9078/)  
So we just would have to implement that.

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**Author:** ![link2xt](https://forum.delta.chat/user_avatar/forum.delta.chat/link2xt/32/1971_2.png) [@link2xt](https://forum.delta.chat/u/link2xt)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2022, 9:25pm UTC](https://forum.delta.chat/t/reactions-to-messages/2001/4 "2022-10-22T21:25:16Z")

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Reactions are being developed now:

> <https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-desktop/pull/2964>
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> just for the fun of already playing with the ui implementation.
> Will need to wa…it for 1.35 to be actually completed, as we want one version out there that can receive but not send 
> reactions first. also this pr is not done by any means.
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> \<img width="437" alt="Bildschirmfoto 2022-10-22 um 00 26 44" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/18725968/197297456-9eb0da82-d2ec-4952-9c02-26fa93f11378.png"\>
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> needs core with these prs merged (UPD: already merged):
> \- https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-core-rust/pull/3644
> \- https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-core-rust/pull/3686

There is no fixed timeline and the next release will definitely not include sending reactions because we need everyone to support receiving reactions first, but this feature is going to be implemented eventually.

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**Author:** ![r10s](https://forum.delta.chat/user_avatar/forum.delta.chat/r10s/32/1513_2.png) [@r10s](https://forum.delta.chat/u/r10s)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2026, 3:12pm UTC](https://forum.delta.chat/t/reactions-to-messages/2001/5 "2026-10-06T15:12:07Z")

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