What does it mean when you send a text message, hit the send button, the message turns green, but you never get a delivered response. On other text messages they are blue, you hit send, and right away you get a delivered response. Why are some messages

SMS messages are green and iMessages are blue.

iMessage is only available on Apple devices (iPad, iPod, iPhone, Mac)

Delivered notifications are only available with iMessages. They are not a feature of SMS messages.

And you could also add that iMessage will only work with internet (either 3G, 4G, LTE or wifi) hence the faster response, the possibility to write longer messages, sending bigger multimedia files.

But thats only between apple devices.

Most modern smart phones will let you send messages longer than 160 characters.

Meg St._Clair wrote:

Most modern smart phones will let you send messages longer than 160 characters.

They'll let you send them, but a friend of mine and I had quite the headache when doing so as the messages would get broken up into 160-character-long chunks and get sent out of order. I found it simpler to just keep my messages shorter. He wasn't sure if it was a carrier issue, something with his phone, or a combination of the two.

He has since switched to an iPhone and we don't have those issues anymore 😉

~Lyssa

I've never had an issue as long as I'm sending to another smart phone. Hasn't mattered if it's Android, Windows or even a Blackberry.

He was the only one I had issues with (well, and my mother, too, but she had a feature phone). No one else ever mentioned issues.

I would have pursued it but he switched before I could do too much troubleshooting with him!

~Lyssa