Google Messages is testing a new animation in its latest beta (v20250115_03_RC00) that makes sent and received messages ...

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).

If a text bubble icon appears on the bottom right of ... an RCS message – the Android messaging platform – and not an SMS, said the police. Within the conversation, an RCS message will be ...

Apple’s iOS 18 software update supports Rich Communication Services, or RCS—the first major change to texting since SMS in ...