Text Bubble ??

[Cuechick]

My new iP5 is my first new iphone since the original, so I am a little behind (ok a lot)... anyway, I sometimes see this odd grey bubble with 3 dots on the bottom left side of my screen when texting...

What does it mean and can the people I text see it?

Thanks!

 

[Intell]

That's a feature of iMessages. It's like the old AOL AIM "the other person is typing" thing. Yes, other people whose text bubble are blue can see it when you are typing a reply to them.

 

[Cuechick]

Thanks!

And what does the bubble being blue indicate?

 

[senseless]

The blue bubble means it's an iMessage (not charged to your cellphone plan). The green bubble means it's the old style messaging. I think of green/ cash for a charge to my plan, as I don't have unlimited texting.

 

[Cuechick]

The blue bubble means it's an iMessage (not charged to your cellphone plan). The green bubble means it's the old style messaging. I think of green/ cash for a charge to my plan, as I don't have unlimited texting.

Got it, though since I have unlimited texting it doesn't matter, right?

(sorry to be ask an obvious question but I am a little paranoid coming from a limited texting plan)

 

[iDuel]

Got it, though since I have unlimited texting it doesn't matter, right?

(sorry to be ask an obvious question but I am a little paranoid coming from a limited texting plan)

Yeah, as long as you have unlimited text messaging, you don't have to worry about how many green bubbled texts you are receiving. I don't know if anyone said this previously, but iMessages do use a small amount of data and do count against your data limit if you are not connected to Wi-Fi.

 

[Cuechick]

I don't know if anyone said this previously, but iMessages do use a small amount of data and do count against your data limit if you are not connected to Wi-Fi.

Ok, Was wondering about that. Is there away to turn imessage off so I'm only texting?

And if I am texting while on wireless than would that not count toward my data plan? only have 1 Gig...

Thanks, this is all great info!

 

[brokenbuyer]

Ok, Was wondering about that. Is there away to turn imessage off so I'm only texting?

And if I am texting while on wireless than would that not count toward my data plan? only have 1 Gig...

Thanks, this is all great info!

Settings < Messages < iMessage OFF
It takes hundreds of texts to take up one MB. iMessage hardly use any data at all (excluding photos/videos).

I also have unlimited texting and had kept iMessage off. Then I decided to turn it on for some reason... gonna use it this month and see how much data difference there will be.

What I had thought was, if you have unlimited texting, you might as well use it. Save that little bit of data for when you actually need it.

 

[Cuechick]

Ok, I am going to let you test that out... let me know how it goes

 

[dictoresno]

text messaging doesnt use data from the data plan bucket, never has. imessage does however, but its so small, it wont make a difference at all.

 

[Rajani Isa]

iMessage will also let people send to you via your email, and it (supposedly, IIRC) syncs across iDevices.