> Apple will change your messages to white text on green so none of your friends can read them easily Messages always shows the received message as black text

> Apple will change your messages to white text on green so none of your friends can read them easily Messages always shows the received message as black text on a grey background. Sent messages can have blue or green backgrounds. Your Apple using friends continue to read your messages just fine. Re-reading messages they’ve sent you is a different matter. More surprising is that someone would complain about the SMS experience in 2020 in the context of smartphones, given the breadth of rich cross-platform alternatives that do not charge by the message / picture / audioclip.