Updated Feb. 10 with more details of the source of the changes, what’s coming and how things will work.
When an iPhone user receives a message from an Android phone, it shows up as a green bubble (not the more highly prized blue bubbles that appear when the message is from another iPhone). Now, a new feature is almost here to allow the deleting, editing and recalling messages between the Apple and Android platforms. Here’s where it’s come from and what it will mean.
Messaging between iPhone and Android is about to improve.
When this greater compatibility began, some claimed that green bubbles were about to disappear. That’s far from the truth now: green bubbles will continue for as long as people use Apple iMessage.