# Reaction issues with SBUChannelViewController
**URL:** https://community.sendbird.com/t/reaction-issues-with-sbuchannelviewcontroller/1802
**Category:** iOS
**Tags:** uikit, ios
**Created:** [March 4, 2021, 7:33am UTC](https://community.sendbird.com/t/reaction-issues-with-sbuchannelviewcontroller/1802 "2021-03-04T07:33:46Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Darin\_Tanaka](https://community.sendbird.com/u/Darin_Tanaka)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2021, 7:33am UTC](https://community.sendbird.com/t/reaction-issues-with-sbuchannelviewcontroller/1802/1 "2021-03-04T07:33:46Z")
Currently testing with versions on a iOS 14.4 Simulator
- SendBirdUIKit (2.0.8):
- SendBirdSDK (~\> 3.0.205)
I’m unable to get the reactions menu to show up shown [here](https://sendbird.com/docs/uikit/v1/ios/guides/reactions) instead what I get is when I long press
Also I’m unable to get the sample app to compile using Xcode 12.4 so I can’t even verify if it works there.
I’m currently initializing my SBUChannelViewController this way:
```
SBUChannelViewController * channelVC = [[SBUChannelViewController alloc] initWithChannelUrl:self.channel_url messageListParams:nil];
UINavigationController * naviVC = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:channelVC];
UITabBarItem * chatTabBarItem = [[UITabBarItem alloc] initWithTitle:@"Chat" image:[UIImage imageNamed:@"message-7"] tag:1];
naviVC.tabBarItem = chatTabBarItem;
[channelVC setTitleView:nil];
[channelVC setLeftBarButton:nil];
[channelVC setRightBarButton:nil];
```
Is there a reason why the reactions don’t show up in the message menu?
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### Author:  [@Tyler](https://community.sendbird.com/u/Tyler)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2021, 6:48pm UTC](https://community.sendbird.com/t/reaction-issues-with-sbuchannelviewcontroller/1802/2 "2021-03-04T18:48:14Z")
@Darin_Tanaka
Let me take a look into this and see if I can recreate the issue.
-Tyler
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### Author:  [@Woo](https://community.sendbird.com/u/Woo)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2021, 11:57pm UTC](https://community.sendbird.com/t/reaction-issues-with-sbuchannelviewcontroller/1802/3 "2021-03-04T23:57:48Z")
@Darin_Tanaka while we are investigating the issue, you can downgrade sdk version to 2.0.7. What error are you facing on sample app with xcode 12.4? and for reaction, your application should be ready to use the feature (I believe it can be configurable in dashboard)
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### Author:  [@Darin\_Tanaka](https://community.sendbird.com/u/Darin_Tanaka)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2021, 1:57am UTC](https://community.sendbird.com/t/reaction-issues-with-sbuchannelviewcontroller/1802/4 "2021-03-05T01:57:00Z")
For the sample app I get hundreds of compilation errors
I’ll try to downgrade and see what happens.
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### Author:  [@Woo](https://community.sendbird.com/u/Woo)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2021, 3:04am UTC](https://community.sendbird.com/t/reaction-issues-with-sbuchannelviewcontroller/1802/5 "2021-03-05T03:04:31Z")
I think theres something wrong with sdk version ☹
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### Author:  [@Darin\_Tanaka](https://community.sendbird.com/u/Darin_Tanaka)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2021, 9:00am UTC](https://community.sendbird.com/t/reaction-issues-with-sbuchannelviewcontroller/1802/6 "2021-03-05T09:00:19Z")
Which SDK version should it be?
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### Author:  [@Woo](https://community.sendbird.com/u/Woo)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2021, 5:50pm UTC](https://community.sendbird.com/t/reaction-issues-with-sbuchannelviewcontroller/1802/7 "2021-03-05T17:50:54Z")
Could you run `pod update` on sample and see what versions they are?
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### Author:  [@Darin\_Tanaka](https://community.sendbird.com/u/Darin_Tanaka)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2021, 6:40pm UTC](https://community.sendbird.com/t/reaction-issues-with-sbuchannelviewcontroller/1802/8 "2021-03-05T18:40:17Z")
Yes that was the issue! Thanks! I see the reactions in the Sample app now! However I’m still confused as to why it’s not showing up in my app when I integrate with the SDK. Is there anything I need to do with the App Settings in the dashboard or something other than the code I posted?
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### Author:  [@Woo](https://community.sendbird.com/u/Woo)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2021, 7:41pm UTC](https://community.sendbird.com/t/reaction-issues-with-sbuchannelviewcontroller/1802/9 "2021-03-05T19:41:19Z")
Like I previously mentioned, you need to check your application setting (sendbird application). [https://sendbird.com/docs/uikit/v1/ios/guides/reactions#2-implementation-guide-for-reactions](https://sendbird.com/docs/uikit/v1/ios/guides/reactions#2-implementation-guide-for-reactions)
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### Author:  [@Darin\_Tanaka](https://community.sendbird.com/u/Darin_Tanaka)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2021, 9:35pm UTC](https://community.sendbird.com/t/reaction-issues-with-sbuchannelviewcontroller/1802/10 "2021-03-05T21:35:16Z")
I’m not sure what this means?
The application settings for reactions
The emojis registered in the application
Do I need to do that in the dashboard?
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### Author:  [@Woo](https://community.sendbird.com/u/Woo)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2021, 11:14pm UTC](https://community.sendbird.com/t/reaction-issues-with-sbuchannelviewcontroller/1802/12 "2021-03-05T23:14:48Z")
also could you try to check on `SBUEmojiManager.getEmojiCategories()` method to see if you can get emojis successfully?
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### Author:  [@Woo](https://community.sendbird.com/u/Woo)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2021, 11:23pm UTC](https://community.sendbird.com/t/reaction-issues-with-sbuchannelviewcontroller/1802/14 "2021-03-05T23:23:05Z")
so we check on our side and reaction feature is enabled. Is your channel normal group channel? or something else. Because broadcast and super group channel are not allowed to use reaction
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### Author:  [@Darin\_Tanaka](https://community.sendbird.com/u/Darin_Tanaka)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2021, 11:59pm UTC](https://community.sendbird.com/t/reaction-issues-with-sbuchannelviewcontroller/1802/15 "2021-03-05T23:59:06Z")
My channel url is sendbird\_group\_channel\_225649541\_bf0c16eff8c7ed1d7a85607d6e57e1d000fda160. I’m assuming since it has `group_channel` in the url it’s considered a group channel. Also I’m able to use reactions fine with the same group channel url in both Web and Android Sendbird UIKit.
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### Author:  [@Woo](https://community.sendbird.com/u/Woo)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2021, 12:47am UTC](https://community.sendbird.com/t/reaction-issues-with-sbuchannelviewcontroller/1802/16 "2021-03-06T00:47:08Z")
huh that’s weird. because when I run the sample with ur app id, it shows reaction menu. Could you try to check `SBUEmojiManager.useReaction` and `SBUEmojiManager.getEmojiCategories()` returns emojis?
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### Author:  [@Darin\_Tanaka](https://community.sendbird.com/u/Darin_Tanaka)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2021, 1:15am UTC](https://community.sendbird.com/t/reaction-issues-with-sbuchannelviewcontroller/1802/17 "2021-03-06T01:15:54Z")
Oh I’m getting an empty array with `SBUEmojiManager.getEmojiCategories()`. How do I fix that?
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### Author:  [@Woo](https://community.sendbird.com/u/Woo)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2021, 1:49am UTC](https://community.sendbird.com/t/reaction-issues-with-sbuchannelviewcontroller/1802/18 "2021-03-06T01:49:35Z")
could you tell me what error you got on your console? `[SBUMain setLogLevel:LogTypeAll];`
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### Author:  [@Darin\_Tanaka](https://community.sendbird.com/u/Darin_Tanaka)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2021, 2:06am UTC](https://community.sendbird.com/t/reaction-issues-with-sbuchannelviewcontroller/1802/19 "2021-03-06T02:06:23Z")
I’m getting the below in my logs
**2021-03-06 02:05:42 +0000 🎨SBULog 📘Info Main [SBUChannelViewController init(channelUrl:messageListParams:)] |**
**Emojis:**
**2021-03-06 02:05:42 +0000 🎨SBULog 📕Error Main [SBUEmojiManager getEmojiCategories()] | [Failed] Emoji Categories: load emoji**
**[]**
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### Author:  [@Darin\_Tanaka](https://community.sendbird.com/u/Darin_Tanaka)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2021, 11:49pm UTC](https://community.sendbird.com/t/reaction-issues-with-sbuchannelviewcontroller/1802/20 "2021-03-06T23:49:43Z")
@Woo I found the issue! I was connecting to Sendbird using `SBDMain` instead of `SBUMain`. The reactions are now showing up.
Just a thought but perhaps updating the iOS documentation to specify that calling `SBUMain.connect` is required prior to using the UIKit similar to the Android one [here](https://sendbird.com/docs/uikit/v1/android/getting-started/install-uikit#2-initialize-the-uikit-sdk) could be helpful.
Any thanks for helping with this issue! You can close this.
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### Author:  [@omar.lopez](https://community.sendbird.com/u/omar.lopez)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2021, 7:41pm UTC](https://community.sendbird.com/t/reaction-issues-with-sbuchannelviewcontroller/1802/21 "2021-10-01T19:41:22Z")
@Woo I’m trying to achieve the oposite. Is there a way to set `useReaction`as false globally? I see that you use `AppInfo.useReaction` but it’s a read only variable. Is there a way to overwrite this?
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### Author:  [@Woo](https://community.sendbird.com/u/Woo)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2021, 5:32pm UTC](https://community.sendbird.com/t/reaction-issues-with-sbuchannelviewcontroller/1802/22 "2021-10-04T17:32:22Z")
would you mind to explain a little bit more the reason why you want to disable it?
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