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Sp1kesugar Author

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Green text message bubble ?

I texted my friend and the bubble was blue and didn’t say delivered or anything underneath it but immediately turned green and said “ sent as text message “ underneath it what does this mean ?

iPhone 8 Plus, iOS 14

Posted on Jul 22, 2021 6:02 AM

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Limnos

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Posted on Jul 22, 2021 6:16 AM

There's different ways for messages to be sent. In your case it didn't work over Apple's own system so it used your carrier's system instead.

About iMessage and SMS/MMS - https://support.apple.com/HT207006

- iMessage - blue bubble + says it is an iMessage

- SMS/MMS - green bubble + it says it is a Text Message

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