Apple improved green bubble chats with iOS 18. But not enough.

Apple made chats better with green bubble friends. They still stink. Starting Monday with the release of iOS 18 , Apple is overhauling the iPhone messaging app to make your chats better in mixed company — when at least one Android phone user is involved.

We’ve been testing the changes, and found major improvements to sharing photos and video and managing chats. But the green bubbles remain. And in our experiments, chats with Android friends still had security and other compromises that Apple could have avoided.



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