Blue and Green SMS Bubbles

So Apple is slowly being forced to relax a number of hardware features and software restrictions to comply with EU regulations. One of these changes gives users or iPhones the ability to uninstall and replace default Apple System Apps with others. 

What I’m getting at here is related to SMS messages. Normal cellular tower based (Short Message Service) messages are usually coloured green in the messaging app and it tells us that the messages are NOT encrypted so can be intercepted by suitable skilled people and the right resources… not good for One Time codes and other security related messages.

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Blue bubbles are Apple specific and tell us the messages are safe and encrypted end-to-end so they cannot be intercepted. You must use the Apple Messaging app to get this level of safely, but now you can install other apps and use them to send SMS messages on your iPhones and not necessarily get the same level of protection.

So, if you have an iPhone and plan to use another messaging platform consider WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram and Confide. Do some research and don't just change it because you can.

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