Jon has been an author at Android Police since 2021. He primarily writes features and editorials covering the latest Android news, but occasionally reviews hardware and Android apps. His favorite ...

Blue text bubbles have almost always been associated with Apple. The easiest way to know if someone's an Android or iPhone user without even meeting them is by sending them a text message and checking ...

Blue bubbles versus green bubbles - in the world of texting, it's the difference between iPhone users and people with Androids. It's like a bubble culture war. People have been called out. People have ...

iPhone users have long dreaded the Android green bubble — Apple's way of showing that a text was sent as an SMS or MMS message instead of iMessage. SMS messaging has been around since 1992, and these ...

After previewing in late November, Google Messages is slowly rolling out Custom Bubbles that let you theme the color and background of RCS chats. Update 4/26: Over the past day or so, many more stable ...

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 ...

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 ...

When you receive a text message, you sometimes see special effects, like balloons floating or fireworks exploding across your screen. These special effects can be triggered by using specific words or ...