why are my text messages sending as green?
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A green background means that the message you sent or received was delivered by SMS through your cellular provider. ... Sometimes you can also send or receive green text messages to an iOS device. This happens when iMessage is turned off on one of the devices.
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The green bubble means that the conversation is being handled as a SMS or a text message. Besides the lack of encryption, the special features offered for those chatting via iMessage (such as Animoji) cannot be used. And that doesn't sit well with many iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch or Mac users.
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If the iMessage goes through and shows a “Delivered” message, then you have probably not been blocked. ... Remember, when messages are being sent as green instead of blue, that means the phone is attempting to send a traditional SMS text message instead of an iMessage.
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Now that Alexa lets you send messages and make calls, Amazon has introduced two new colors for notifications: green and yellow. A pulsing green light indicates an incoming call. A spinning green light means you're currently on a call. ... You can say, "Play my messages" or "Check my notifications" for more information.
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If you see a green message bubble instead of a blue one, then that message was sent using MMS/SMS instead of iMessage. There are several reasons for this: The person that you sent the message to doesn't have an Apple device. iMessage is turned off on your device or on your recipient's device.
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['If "Send Read Receipts" is enabled by the recipient, then it will change to "Read" once the message has actually been seen.', 'If you see "Sent as a Text Message," that means your message was sent using your carrier\'s SMS service rather than Apple\'s iMessage servers.']
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The person you are texting uses an Android which means the bubbles are normally green. But the reason they could be DARK green is because you have turned on “Increase Contrast” in settings. You can turn that setting off and it will go back to normal bright green bubbles.
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Underneath you will see the status, Sent, Delivered, Read. If the bubble is green, it means the recipient isn't on iPhone which means read receipts might not work. If both bubbles are blue and the status stays at Delivered, they may have turned read receipts off.
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While the phone is off that message will wait on Apple's servers. However there is a setting under Messaging which says “Send as SMS”. If you have this setting enabled then when an iMessage is not delivered your phone will cancel the original iMessage, and instead send it as an SMS (green bubble).
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No. A green text message means the message was sent using SMS instead of the iMessage data service. This typically mean you did not have data at the tine your sent the message.
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Green. A pulsing green light means that a call is coming in on your device. If the green light is spinning, then your device is on an active call. Or, you're on an active Drop In on your device.
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It's just a lighting effect Apple included in the messages to make it more dynamic. If I remember correctly, the lower ones are dark blue. It's just a color gradient thing that Apple does.
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A single green checkmark means the message will receive. Two green check marks mean that they read your message. If you don't see that second green checkmark, the recipient may have turned read receipts off.
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Helpful answers All that means is the person you sent it too has saved that message. It is a bug in iOS8.
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Video: Explained: Blue vs. Short answer: Blue ones have been sent or received using Apple's iMessage technology, while green ones are "traditional" text messages exchanged via Short Messaging Service, or SMS.
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If your text messages aren't being displayed in the proper order, this is due to having the wrong timestamps on the text messages. To fix this issue: Go to Settings > Date and time. Make sure “Automatic date and time” and “Automatic time zone” are checked ✓
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If the message is blue, it is an Apple message. If it doesn't say "Delivered" or "Read" below the message it means the message has not yet been delivered. This could be due to the person to whom you are sending the message being offline, or maybe they have their iPhone off or on Do Not Disturb.