> It just makes you appear as a "blue bubble" to people who are on iMessage. Received messages on iPhones show up as neither blue nor green. They always have a

> It just makes you appear as a "blue bubble" to people who are on iMessage. Received messages on iPhones show up as neither blue nor green. They always have a gray background. The blue and green bubbles are the colors of the messages sent by the iPhone users on their own phones. Recipients, on other iPhones, will see messages with a gray background regardless of whether it was sent with iMessage or SMS/MMS.