Phone users have long dreaded the Android green bubble, showing that a text was sent as an SMS or MMS message instead of ...

Blue text bubbles on Android are from Google's Custom Bubbles feature, which let users change the color of message bubbles in ...

On Android, blue dots or chat icons show that RCS is enabled, giving you advanced texting features missing from traditional ...

Google-owned Android has teamed with comedian Ziwe Fumudoh for an effort asserting that the green text bubbles exchanged in messages between iPhone and non-iPhone devices are costing Apple adherents ...

iPhone users know that if they send a message to someone whose response comes in as a green text, they’ve reached an Android user. While at first thought it makes sense that a device using a competing ...

Journalist Jo Ling Kent joined CBS News in July 2023 as the senior business and technology correspondent for CBS News. Kent has more than 15 years of experience covering the intersection of technology ...

In a bold move from Android, it recently launched a “Get The Message” campaign with aims to fix texting issues between Apple and Android devices. On the landing page for the campaign on the official ...

Apple has blocked Beeper Mini, which lets Android users send blue-bubble texts to iPhones. The tech giant said the app "exploited fake credentials" and posed a security and privacy risk. The move has ...

If you have the feature enabled, an emoji will automatically be added to the text message you sent. What emoji is added will depend on the context of the text. In Google Messages, you can do something ...

The Nothing Phone 2 will soon give Android users the option to communicate with Apple's iMessage. They'll be able to do this through the Nothing Chats app developed with messaging platform Sunbird. It ...

Any time you enter a text messaging thread on iPhone, those blue and green message bubbles make clear who else is on iPhone versus Android. Google claims that distinction leads to "peer pressure and ...