{"id":220176,"date":"2017-07-18T09:06:02","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T07:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=220176"},"modified":"2017-07-18T09:06:24","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T07:06:24","slug":"google-allo-update-with-message-reactions-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/220176-google-allo-update-with-message-reactions-released.html","title":{"rendered":"Google Allo update with message reactions released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google&#8217;s head of product for its Allo messaging service, Amit Fulay, has <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/amitfulay\/status\/886994504644874240\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a><\/strong> the release of the latest version of the app.<\/p>\n<p>Allo version 14 introduces message reactions, allowing you to register a response to a message when a full reply isn&#8217;t needed.<\/p>\n<p>Currently only a &#8220;like&#8221; reaction appears to be available, accessible by tapping a heart icon in the bottom-left of a message.<\/p>\n<p>If there is more than one like on a message, a small counter is displayed next to it.<\/p>\n<p>The new version of Allo is rolling out through the Play Store, and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2017\/07\/17\/google-allo-14-message-reactions-update\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">9to5Google reported<\/a><\/strong> that features such as the web app are still a few more weeks away.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Google-Allo-version-14.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-220178\" src=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Google-Allo-version-14-471x430.jpg\" alt=\"Google Allo version 14\" width=\"471\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Google-Allo-version-14-471x430.jpg 471w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Google-Allo-version-14-438x400.jpg 438w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Google-Allo-version-14-768x701.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Google-Allo-version-14.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 471px) 100vw, 471px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/200168-google-allo-getting-a-desktop-web-app.html\">Google Allo getting a desktop web app<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google&#8217;s head of product for its Allo messaging service, Amit Fulay, has announced the release of the latest version of the app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":165548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17934],"tags":[167,37264],"class_list":["post-220176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-smartphones","tag-google","tag-google-allo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220208,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220176\/revisions\/220208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}