One trick Apple uses to make you think green bubbles are “gross”

A brilliant trick you should probably never use.

Allen
UX Collective
Published in
3 min readOct 5, 2022

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Apple iPhone iMessage’s Android green bubble is often considered gross
Left: an imaginary chat bubble color / Right: Apple’s chat bubble color

To make sure iPhone users don’t expect iMessage-only features when texting Android users, Apple marks the chat bubbles in blue (“you are texting someone with iMessage”) and green (“you are texting someone without iMessage”). This segmentation has then evolved into…

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