How to change color of text bubble

Seriously? There's no way to do this in iOS7? Requests for this go back years.....

Thanks to you both. Well...hardly anyone I know has an iPhone, so the iMessage isn't really an option.

All I can find is directions to jailbreak the phone and I'd rather not hassle with that.

Looked at some apps but they all seem to come with ads.

No idea why this is not available on the iPhone when so many people have asked for it.

My son told me I would regret choosing this OS. I argued with him, told him I was over 50 and had no reason to jailbreak an iPhone.

Boooooyah!

hahaha, dot2222, circus clowns on crack about describes that nasty green color. I am soooo disappointed. This is my 1st smartphone and it doesn't even have that basic functionality - changing colors on text messages, which is one the main features of a smart phone. I had a "dumb" phone for years and held out for an iPhone since I was so in love with my iPod. Husband & son got different brands and theirs seem so much easier to set up & run.

For example on iphone pix, I have to install something special to see those pix from iCloud on a Win PC. It's just all these extra steps. AFAIK my guys just go to a web address, done.

Can't really comment on the whole iOS7, since I only had my phone about 3 weeks before iOS7 came out. It doesn't look too terribly different than what was there before, honestly. I had to find out the different way to kill apps running in the background and the calendar is a bit different. Can't say it's better or worse since I was only using it for about 3 weeks. But I can see how folks who were using another version for several years might be upset.

steveb63, what are you saying the text background was changeable in earlier versions? Everything I've read on the net says folks have been asking for this for ages.

All I can think is something is seriously horked in the underlying code for texting, how it was originally designed, and it would be a huge undertaking to change it. I do have a programming background and colors are just a hex string...if this color got hardcoded into every module that is still no excuse. I bet they hardcoded the color to do with the billing of SMS vs iMessage or something stupid like that. God forbid the billing gets screwed with.

LOL, don't know the color is harsh due to the age of my eyeballs. It's harsh due to my aesthetic of how I want my screens to appear, which Apple kinda pioneered back in the day and then we're left with this...barfy color.

Honestly, I expected to be able to assign different colors to all of my favorite contacts.