By default, any texts you ship to a tool that doesn’t have iMessage turned on present up as a harsh, brilliant inexperienced bubble. It’s a really apparent sign that you just aren’t texting any person with an Apple system and shedding out on issues like smoother group chats and snazzy message results. Frankly, these inexperienced texts may also be troublesome to parse, one thing Google has identified on its “Get the Message” website.

To make inexperienced texts extra readable, you’ll should dive a bit into your iPhone’s settings, however the possibility is simple to activate as soon as the place to look. Here’s tips on how to do it:

Then hop on over to the Messages app and discover the final dialog the place you despatched texts as a substitute of iMessages. Instead of the neon inexperienced, your messages shall be a darker forest inexperienced, and in my view, it seems to be method higher.

Note that this setting will increase distinction throughout the Messages app, so chances are you’ll discover a couple of different adjustments as nicely. iMessages are a a lot darker blue, for instance, and the border across the textual content enter area has a extra seen define. Those don’t trouble me, so I’ll in all probability hold elevated distinction on for the much-improved inexperienced bubbles.