no? just look at your phone
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xia@lemmy.sdf.org 4 months ago
…but aren’t the gray bubbles the ones she is sending from her phone?
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Look at his android to answer a question about iPhones?
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
I meant the side. One’s own messages are always on the right.
wander1236@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Except maybe in RTL layouts
Venator@lemmy.nz 4 months ago
Looks like fb messenger to me
oehm@midwest.social 4 months ago
No on iPhones the blue or green bubbles are your texts
xia@lemmy.sdf.org 4 months ago
I’m confused… wasn’t there a big stir about green bubbles being the lowly Android peasants?
StrongHorseWeakNeigh@lemmy.world 4 months ago
One thing I can confirm is that you are very confused.
joyjoy@lemm.ee 4 months ago
The green bubbles means you aren’t texting an iPhone user and it wasn’t sent via iMessage.
shinratdr@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Yes but it doesn’t brand the other person, the colour is to inform the sender that the message they sent is either an iMessage (blue) or an SMS (green).
It wasn’t intended to be some class system. When the iPhone launched, it only supported SMS and all texts were green. They wanted to differentiate iMessage conversations when they launched that a few years later, but still use the same client so people were more likely to use it. That way you know you can use more features but you also know you need a data connection. This was an important distinction when most people still had plans that had minutes, quantities of texts, and limited or no data. Also if a iMessage fails, it automatically uses SMS fallback. It’s important to know when that happens too. Colour was just a very obvious way to indicate that.
The reason iPhone users don’t like green bubble conversations now is mostly because SMS just doesn’t support all the iMessage features like higher quality pictures, video, tapback, inline reply, stickers, etc. It also is lowest common denominator for a group thread, so one person without iMessage causes the whole thread to revert to SMS.
homicidalrobot@lemm.ee 4 months ago
You have fallen for the actual lies. iMessage doesn’t have higher quality video or images, it trashes the quality of MMS for no reason. Have a green bubble friend send you the exact same image on imessage and email it to you/send it on discord/whatever. It destroys the quality. Any other messaging app or even the default messages app on most phones won’t degrade quality like this, even on cell data; it’s being artificially degraded to make you believe iMessage has something other messaging apps don’t. There is no magical picture beautifier in imessage.