Currently, green bubbles on Apple's service indicate that a text has been sent via SMS rather than iMessage. And several Gen Z Android users say they've been teased for not having an iPhone ...

Green Text Bubbles Are Cool, ... interpret as an attempt to shame them in front of their blue-bubble peers. ... harming competition by undermining the texting experience on rival phones. ...

Bubble Zoom is built into an update for its ebook about Google Play Books, for Android. It automatically detects texts bubbles in a comic and enlarges them — letting the user clearly read what's ...

Some tech brands still have the SMS green text bubble incorporated into their ecosystem. Flip phones like Samsung’s Galaxy Z Flip4 and Z Fold4 are having a renaissance, and for good reason.

Those who have ever been shamed for their green text bubble will understand this all too well. The big divide in the smartphone world is between Apple’s iPhone and phones that run on Google’s ...

Google’s Bubble Zoom feature (which isn’t the greatest name, I know) simply blows up the text without zooming in on the image on the page. It already promises to be a better way to enjoy ...

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 ...

Apple AAPL-0.59 % decrease; red down pointing triangle plans to support a standard that will improve messaging with Android phones and enable new features, helping quell the blue-bubble/green ...

But because the platforms aren't compatible, text messages between iPhones and Androids revert to regular, outdated text messages. This lack of interoperability leads to a major annoyance, for some.