Is text on iPhone green due to Do Not Disturb or blocked number?

Do Not Disturb will not turn them to green as they are delivered but no sound or notification goes through while Do Not Disturb is on. I am not 100% sure but I don't think blocking exhibits this behavior either. As far as I know to the sender nothing appears to be different but the receiver wouldn't ever get the message.

Edit: After some further research it appears that if you are on iOS 8 then it would try to send the message as an iMessage (blue) and attempt to send. After a couple of minutes it would resend as an SMS (green). However, with iOS 9 it will immediately show as delivered and remain blue. Either way, the person that has blocked you will never receive the messages.

I literally have been trying to find out the exact same thing with my boyfriend. It only turns green when we get into an arguement. I wanted to know if I'm blocked or on do not disturb whatever so I asked my friend to text him from her phone. When she sent a message it was blue (iMessage) but when I did it was green. Also, in the box you text in it says text message and my friends says iMessage. I have yet to find an answer as well.

Hey did you end up figuring out if you were in fact blocked? I'm having the same issue with things turning green only on one person.

So what happens if the messages are green but the phone still rings when you call it??

Bp1421 wrote:

So what did the earlier user mean when they said that on iOS 8 it will attempt to send as iMessage but then send as a text but on iOS 9 it will look like a normal iMessage when sending but just never deliver? Sorry I have so many questions lol

I have no idea what that user meant. It doesn't correspond to anything in my experience. If you have Settings>Messages>Send as SMS enabled, when an iMessage fails to send as an iMessage, it will be tried again as an SMS. My experience is that this generally works as designed. But, again, it's not related to the person on the other end blocking you or putting you on DND.

To reiterate: There is no way, on your end, for you to tell if you have been blocked or if his phone is on DND in any fashion.

Bp1421 wrote:

okay I understand now! I've always been on iOS 8 & when he's blocked me before when we got in arguments my iMessage still looked as normal so I was just curious as to why it was looking different

Again, nothing you've described gives any indication of whether or not you've been blocked.

See my post above with the linked article. In iOS 8 it did try to send as an iMessage but then send as an SMS instead if you were blocked. Now with iOS 9 it will remain as an iMessage.

Csound1 wrote:

There is a monastery that does not have internet service? who knew? how do they contact the boss when needed?

You can access Twitter via SMS.

UPDATE: this does in fact mean your blocked. Just experimented with a buddy of mine. So if your running iOS 10 and your iMessage turns into a green message your blocked.

Ask your boyfriend if he blocks you when you've had a fight. Wait until you've made up.