Texting Between Android and iPhone Not Working: Google Criticizes Apple

On its website on Tuesday, Google openly criticised Apple for what it claims is the company's failure to enhance the user experience for Android and iPhone consumers. Cross-device messaging's "green message bubbles," which include low-resolution compressed videos, the absence of read receipts, and other inconveniences, have long been criticised by certain users.

Google accuses Apple of converting text messages received between iPhones and Android devices into SMS and MMS, two antiquated protocols for exchanging text-only messages between devices.  Google contends that Rich Communication Services, or RSC, should be used by Apple instead because it is the "current industry standard" and will enhance how consumers can transmit media like emojis, movies, and photographs along with messages and calls.

When people with iPhones and Android phones text each other, there are issues since Apple won't follow contemporary texting standards, according to the Android website. The website asks users to "help @Apple #getthemessage" by spreading the campaign's message on social media. "Broken texting between Android and iPhone. It's time for Apple to repair texting for everyone, green and blue bubbles, and other issues "the social text is read.

Google has only recently urged Apple to use RCS, and this is the most recent example of that. When rapper Drake's song "Texts Go Green," which is about miscommunication with a relationship, was released in June, Google seized the chance to make its point. In a "unofficial lyric explainer video," Google's social media team praised the song and interpreted the lyrics as criticism of the iPhone for turning Android users' texts green. In Google's June film, the line "If only some highly talented engineering team at Apple would fix this" is read.