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).

Ahhh…the green bubble: the bubble that appears in a text conversation when an Android user sends a message. For some, this is just a minor detail of the greater ...

An update to RCS is about to offer more features to messages that travel between Apple and Android phones—though blue and ...

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's iMessage is great until you try to chat with someone on an Android phone. WSJ's Joanna Stern explains our great Apple-Android messaging crisis and provides some tips on how to cope ...

And then the backward slope begins. The bubble pops at the top. Green will index within the mainstream and become ubiquitous. It's a fad and will vanish back to the margins of our society. A new ...

Every time it happens I find it annoying. I’ll be in a group chat and eventually someone adds another person to it and the messages go from blue bubbles to green bubbles. Those green bubbles ...