In Apple's Messages app starting with iOS 7, a green bubble surrounding the text means the incoming message came from a non-Apple phone that uses the standard SMS/MMS text messaging system (see SMS).

One thing that is definitely not "cool," it seems, is having a green text bubble. On Apple's iPhones, instead of conversations appearing in the typical gray and blue, text messages from non-Apple ...

Apple finally brought RCS messaging to iPhones with the release of iOS 18 in September of 2024. However, it wasn't perfect as end-to-end encryption wasn't available between iPhones and Android devices ...

The history of blue and green iPhone message ... a seamless and free way to send text messages, photos, videos, and more. The color difference of message bubbles was a visual cue to distinguish ...

Chase Elliott Refuses to Use Android, preferring iPhone's blue bubbles over green texts. His stance on messaging and tech ...

Now that Apple is on board, iPhones and their users can also benefit from continued improvements to the RCS standard. And one major update was announced today: RCS will now support end-to-end ...