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Because blue means iMessage and iMessage means E2EE. Grey and Green means not encrypted. Simple.
by X-Istence 3y ago
Because blue means iMessage and iMessage means E2EE.
Grey and Green means not encrypted. Simple.
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- criddell 3y agoGray is encrypted to Apple, and then the information is (of course) shared with third parties. Would you consider that to be a private communication? Kind of. It's a gray area...
- nielsbot 3y agoC'mon...
- danaris 3y agoThat's your own interpretation of it. You could say "blue means it supports link embedding; green means it doesn't" and it would be just as true. Personally, I strongly suspect that Apple views it as "blue means Apple; green means NIH."
- kbf 3y agoGreen means cellular, blue means internet. This same color distinction is used in other places in the UI, such as control center and settings.
- snowwrestler 3y agoNope, it means SMS vs iMessage specifically. > If you see a green message bubble instead of a blue one, then that message was sent using MMS/SMS instead of iMessage. https://support.apple.com/en-us/105087 https://support.apple.com/en-us/105087 > iMessages are texts, photos, or videos that you send to another iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Mac over Wi-Fi or cellular-data networks. These messages are always encrypted and appear in blue text bubbles. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207006 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207006
- mappu 3y agoMMS is email-style MIME messages retrieved over HTTP on a data connection. Push notifications for MMS are delivered as a special SMS, but otherwise it's far far closer to internet than cellular, and it's green.
- vitorgrs 3y agoYears ago iMessage was not E2EE and it was already blue...