The Justice Department called out Apple for afflicting Android smartphone users with the dreaded “green bubble” in text messages — calling it a mark of “social stigma, exclusion and blame ...

After long resisting, Apple commits to changes Apple has long defended the green bubbles by saying the colors show people that Apple's messages are encrypted on iPhones and Android messages are not.

The US Department of Justice is angry about green message bubbles. Announcing today's antitrust lawsuit against Apple, US Attorney General Merrick Garland devoted a portion of his speech to the ...

Apple made chats better with green bubble friends. They still stink. Starting Monday with the release of iOS 18, Apple is overhauling the iPhone messaging app to make your chats better in mixed ...

For Apple, the green bubble strategy is by design. “In the absence of a strategy to become the primary messaging service for [the] bulk of cell phone users, I am concerned the iMessage on ...

He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Apple has spent years slowly making green bubbles feel like a worse kind of message — no typing indicators, tiny photos ...

Apple's iOS 18 will support RCS this fall, improving texting between iPhone and Android users. But Android users will still show up as green text bubbles when messaging iPhones. Green text bubbles ...