You can use the Messages app on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to send messages. Those messages are sent as iMessage or SMS/MMS. Learn more about the difference between the message types.
Your iPhone messages are green for two reasons. D3sign / Getty Images If your iPhone messages are green, it means that they're being sent as SMS text messages rather than as iMessages, which appear.
iMessage
Is Texting Between Iphones Free
iMessages are texts, photos, or videos that you send to another iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Mac over Wi-Fi or cellular-data networks. These messages are always encrypted and appear in blue text bubbles. To turn iMessage on or off, go to Settings > Messages.
Why Does Iphone To Iphone Text Green
- If you have an iPhone, and you send a message to someone with an Android phone, it will come up with a green text bubble because that phone isn't registered with Apple's iMessage service. If you have an iPhone and send a message to an iPhone user, the message comes up as blue because both phones are registered with iMessage.
- When you open the Messages app, you’ll notice that when you send text messages, sometimes they are sent in a blue bubble and other times they are sent in a green bubble. Here’s what that means: If your message appears in a blue bubble, then your text message was sent using iMessage.
- Nov 03, 2013 Blue=iMessage, Apple's messaging service. Green=SMS/MMS, your carrier's messaging service. Grey is just the color of incoming texts. When you send to someone else who is also using iMessage, as long as there is a good network connection (Wi-Fi or cellular), it should send as a blue message.
- Question: Q: iPhone is green in text messages with iOS 8 My wife has an iPhone 6 and when she tries to send me text messages using my iPhone 6 plus phone number, the balloons are green, not blue. When you look up my phone number in contacts it is listed as an iPhone and the phone number is blue.
SMS/MMS
If you aren’t using iMessage, you can use SMS/MMS. These messages are texts and photos that you send to other cell phones or another iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. SMS/MMS messages aren't encrypted and appear in green text bubbles on your device.
To use SMS/MMS on an iPhone, you need a text-messaging plan. Contact your wireless carrier for more information. You can also set up your other Apple devices to send and receive messages from any Apple device.
Why Iphone Messages Are Green
If Wi-Fi is unavailable, iMessages will be sent over cellular data. Cellular data rates might apply.