IOS 7 - Change message bubble color?, IOS 7 - Change message bubble color?

defilm wrote:

Ahh, I am beyond frustrated.

I am not even looking at the Iphone6, I am looking at the Samsung Android devices. I

It is trivial.

I have replaced all my IPhone and IPAD ap's with their comparable Andoid counterparts. The savings of upgrading to a Laptop at 1/2 the price, with 32GB RAM, quad core Haswell Appears innovation and common sense left with Steve. I can't believe we are going in to 2014 and this still has not been resolved. Bye Apple.

Thoughtfful, helpful, and constructive post, right? Certainly no entitled, self-serving whining in this thread!

I think after spending $400 for a smartphone I should feel enttled to be able to READ text messages! I am shocked the dolts at Apple engineering didn't make it yellow with white lettering.😠 It is the "Apple, we are number one and can do what we want" attitude that has always been present. Careful, I recall when Mororola and Blackberry were king of the hill.

But your right, no sense in pleading with Apple to make their imessages readable, after all who uses text messages today??? There is no sense in complaining either, but I figured I can at least do that since my contrat is up and rather than wait for the new Iphone6 I will be going samsung. I love Linux, Ph. D EE born and raised on Unix and Linux, but Android is Linux about as much as I believe Apple is responsive.

Glad I sold all my stock when Steve died. Now I feel better. See you all on Samsung devices soon.

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Don't know anyone who can't read messages. The severely color blind have teh IQ to enable color reversal.

Yes yes we have covered the directions for inverting the colours but the whole point of this thread is that none of us can read our text messages because the colour scheme is so vile that it makes us want to puke and Apple should have 1. gotten off the acid before they decided on colour schemes and 2. Given us other choices for colour schemes

Too bad that apple didnt change this quickly, or have enough forward thinking to add in the features capable of doing this. It was the text message colors that did it for me and caused me to go to android. I'm now on the HTC One and love it. The text message feature is much better. Funny enough, I think the HTC One is actually better than the iPhone 5s and it came out way before the 5s. Not sure if I will actually go back to apple, considering how much better my HTC is and how apple is now way behind the curve. Even though this thread is apparently not to submit support tickets to apple, it's ridiculous that apple doesn't have someone checking these threads. Another apple user changed to android for good. Too bad apple, you had your chance and blew it.

Apple should have 1. gotten off the acid before they decided on colour schemes and 2. Given us other choices for colour schemes

Based on those posting in this thread and the content of those posts, it's much better for Apple that they didn't.

RE: iOS 7 on the iPhone 5S.

The vivid green/white on a white background is almost impossible to to read for SMS messages.

The blue and white are almost as bad for iMessages.

Please update the iOS with a way to customize the colors, or at least make the bubbles (and for that matter the color of the icons itself) less high contrast colors.

AKosh wrote:

RE: iOS 7 on the iPhone 5S.

The vivid green/white on a white background is almost impossible to to read for SMS messages.

The blue and white are almost as bad for iMessages.

What's really odd about this "problem" is that the color background appears only on the sent messages, which you presumably composed in the gray-background message entry box. All received messages have a neutral gray background color

There already is a simple solution for those with visual or perceptual problems who have difficulty with these colors.

Settings > General > Accessibility > (scroll down) Accessibility Shortcut > Invert Colors.

When reading messages, triple-click the home button to invert colors when the background color is causing problems for you.

Please update the iOS with a way to customize the colors

You aren't addressing Apple here - this is a user-to-user tech support site not followed by Apple. To suggest something to Apple, post it here:

Apple - iPhone - Feedback

You sound like a broken record. Do you really not understand why inverting the *entire* user interface is not a reasonable solution to legibility? If not, go back and read the responses to the 500 other times someone "helpfully" suggested this nearly useless option. It's not as if you're the first person to think of it.

I'm in favor of a flatter, more minimalist design. I'm not in favor of eyesore supersaturated colors and nearly illegible text. I want heavier font weights, drop shadows, darker colors, grays and blacks instead of whites, better contrast, and less muddy transparency that does nothing except make the foreground elements harder to read.

Ive should stick to hardware design.

Apple,

Change the ******* text bubble and font colors and be done with it. White font on green? Come on! While you're at it, get rid of the imbecelic, childish bubbles. Use simple lines of text. Bubbles are a waste of valuable screen real estate.

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Thank God my contract is up and I can return my iPhone for an Android one. With the Android phone I will have the choice to set it up as I wish, be free to choose colours that suit my colourblindness and also to freely pick what I have as my ringtone without endless messing about, and be able to get rid of that hideous text colours, green and white, it hurts to look at it, and the reverse colour scheme is no better.

I am normally very pro Apple, I won't have a PC in the house, they're not fit for purpose unlike the Mac offerings, and I am an IT professional with 30 years experience. My iPod classic is a Godsend for travelling and entertainment, I am moving job soon and a requirement for my new job will be an iPad, but I wouldn't have an iPhone at gunpoint. I have never regretted getting an Apple product until I acquired the iPhone.

Someone somewhere has seriously dropped the ball on the iPhone in my opinion. The people involved need to look at what is happening with Android and make some changes to shake up iOS and make it more useable.

hockeyman826 wrote:

Apple,

Change the text bubble and font colors and be done with it. White font on green? Come on! While you're at it, get rid of the imbecelic, childish bubbles. Use simple lines of text. Bubbles are a waste of valuable screen real estate.

Apple is not listening here. Use the feedback page:

http://www.apple.com/feedback

Thanks Meg. Have added my tuppence worth. Didn't upgrade ios last ime, but thought they'd have fixed this by now so updated to latest ios, and it's hideous.

Dave

>>> If you do not fix this monumental screw up I can assure you have lost a customer for life. Good luck with that younger crowd, I do not think they have the resources to buy a 1.000 USD cell phone, you are marketing to the worng demographic. <<<

The demographic technology companies are pursuing is the 10 to 20-year-olds. That is the group that spends the most on technology.

Try searching the App Store for "color imessage." There are now several apps that'll let you do that.