A worried-looking emoji inside a green text bubble.
Android users will show up as a green text bubble when messaging iPhones.
  • Apple's iOS 18 will support RCS this fall, improving texting between iPhone and Android users.
  • But Android users will still show up as green text bubbles when messaging iPhones.
  • Green text bubbles have long been a contentious point among non-iPhone users.

Android and iPhone owners have plenty to celebrate after Apple's big WWDC keynote, which revealed changes to how messaging between the two rivals will improve in iOS 18.

But Apple is still holding out on getting rid of the much-hated green text bubbles, according to a first glimpse from Apple.