Most text “widgets?” not working at all…

So I dont think they are actually called widgets and I’m not sure what they are called but when you’re sending a text message and you click the app looking button next to the camera button it brings up that row of “widgets”, in text apps, whatever they are called… when I click on most of them my phone proceeds to do nothing. If I click the voice record button I see a gray circle surround the button as if I pressed it but then nothing happens. Same thing goes for all the buttons there. If I try and send a GIF yet again the GIFs aren’t even pulled up but the gray circle surrounds the button. It doesn’t matter how long I wait, nothing happens. It doesn’t matter if I’m texting someone with an iPhone or an android, the same thing happens regardless. It’s very frustrating, what do I do? There are “apps”, widgets, or buttons (whatever you want to call them) that do work like photos, apps, and that Digital Touch message but nothing else. Just seems super weird