Do iMessages stay blue?

I discovered iMessaging yesterday (after downloading iOS5) when some of my messages were blue. There was the little message underneath showing sent as iMessage. Those messages are no longer blue today. If I scroll through my history for that conversation some of the messages say sent as text message but none show sent as iMessage. And of course, some of them don't say anything.
I suppose my question is, do iMessages stay blue or do they revert back to green over a period of time?

A message may begin as an iMessage (blue) but if either sender or receiver cannot pass the message via wifi or data, then the message converts to a text message (green) after about 5 minutes and is sent via the voice channel.

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I have decided to dedicate this thread to the wonderful errors of Lion OSX. Each time I find a huge problem with Lion I will make note of it here.
Today I discovered a new treasure of doggie poop in Lion. No Save As......
I repeat. No Save As. In text editor I couldn't save the file with a new extension. I finally accomplished this oh so majorly difficult task (because we all know how difficult it should be to save a file with a new extension) by pressing duplicate and then saving a copy of the file with a new extension. Yet then I had to delete the first copy and send it to trash. And of course then I have to secure empty trash because if I have to do this the rest of my mac's life I will be taking up a quarter of percentage of space with duplicate files. So this is the real reason they got rid of Save As: so that it would garble up some extra GB on the ole hard disk.
So about 20 minutes of my time were wasted while doing my homework and studying for an exam because I had to look up "how to save a file with a new extension in mac Lion" and then wasted time sitting here and ranting on this forum until someone over at Apple wakes up from their OSX-coma.
are you freaking kidding me Apple? I mean REALLY?!!!! who the heck designed this?!!! I want to know. I want his or her name and I want to sit down with them and have a long chat. and then I'd probably splash cold water on their face to wake them up.
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HT3529 Please confirm iMessages in blue are not charged or recorded as SMS's

Please confirm iMessages in blue are not recorded or charged as SMS's

Auchtermuchty wrote:
Please confirm iMessages in blue are not ... charged as SMS's
Correct.
Blue = iMessage...
Green = Text message... SMS

Why the top bar at Safari is not responding and the book picture stays blue

the last two days the bar at the top of safari page is not responding. The book indicator looks like it stays pressed and all other functions are blocked.

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    Quit all applications.
    Option click the "Go" menu in the Finder menu bar.
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On Pages I can't change my font it always stays blue. It says it's black but it isn't. Any Ideas?

My pages is't working properly. can any one help!!??

OK. Sometimes Word and Pages do not play nice together.
I assume that you tried a select all and then tried to change to color of the text and that didn't work. So close the document now - tap on the documents button in the upper left corner. Then Tap the Edit button in the upper right corner and and the documents will begin to wiggle. Tap on this particular problem file in the documents window and then tap on the + sign at the top to create a copy of the file. Tap on the copy to open it and try changing the color of the text in the copy.
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Reboot the iPad by holding down on the sleep and home buttons at the same time for about 10-15 seconds until the Apple Logo appears - ignore the red slider if it appears on the screen - let go of the buttons. Let the iPad start up.

Color of iMessage was blue now green with iOS 7?,

Has the colour changed for messages from iPhone to iphone

I called Apple Support after trying many fixes suggested online. They directed me to the procedure on the following page:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4268?viewlocale=en_US
I did the erase and restore option they suggested since I had tried a pile of ther things suggested on posts and blogs and they did not work. I even waited the obligatory 24 hours, thus the restore from backup option was what they suggested. I have a 64gig iPhone 4S and it took about 1.5 hours to complete the entire operation seeing that I am using about 54 gigs of that capacity.
Warning: I lost all of my emails and all of the data files from one of my map programs so be sure you have everything that you really need from your phone store elsewhere before wiping your phone. I thought that the backup on my computer would restore everything but obviously NOT.
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The Problem is when you "switch accounts" the screen will stay blue

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Clinton

TS2755 Why do some of the imessages go in green, and some go in blue, when sending to the same phone number? Does it have anything to do with the cellular carrier?

Can someone please tell me why when you are sending a message to the same phone number, and they also have a I-phone, that some of the messages go in blue and you can see that it has been delivered and read, and some messages go in green and you can't see if they got the messageor if they have read the message?

SMS messages are shown in green, iMessages in blue. If the recipient is an iPhone user but doesn't have a data (WiFi or cellular) connection and you have Settings>Messages>Send as SMS enabled, that person will get your messages as SMSs until they have a data connection again.
iMessages have delivered notification (and read notification if the recipient has that feature enabled). SMS does not.
Best of luck.

IMessage (Blue & white bubbles)

When you text someone on the iPhone it shows as a Blue bubble for ur reply and white when they text you.
Mine doesn't do that, the person who texts me their text is white, normal. My replies my bubbles are green.
Its not a big deal but I want to fix it.
I have an iPhone 4

Sorry, you're the one who's mixed up. iMessage is blue, SMS is green. At least, according to Apple.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3529
Messages sent using iMessage will appear in a light blue bubble, while messages sent using SMS or MMS will appear in a green bubble.

Sometimes when iMessaging text show up green and not blue

Some times when I massaging tex show up green

To be correct.
iMessages are blue. Only those with a Mac computer or iOS device can receive iMessages. iMessages are sent using data, not yoru text messaging plan.
SMS/MMS are green. iPhones can receive SMS/MMS and iMessages. SMS/MMS require a text messaging plan.

Imac - dvi to hdmi. It works great, but I have one problem with blue flicker on my imac

Yesterday I bought a dvi to hdmi connector from Apple store, and successfully connected my iMac (10.6.8) to an LG 50" monitor.
It works great with one problem. My imac flickers blue every 2 secs when TV is on but set to other inputs.
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I don't want to have to connect the cable every time I want I want to project to the TV (although I guess I can live w/ that). Is there a way to have this setup correctly?
thanks for any help in advance.

As an update, after 2 weeks of tinkering with this setup, the iMac is usually able to settle down after about 20 seconds of flittering. And, if it does happen where the iMac stays blue screen, I can switch the TV to show the HDMI input from the computer, which works, and if I want, switch it back.
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I am having some trouble with receiving messages from iMessage users when I don't have my iMessage turned on. When I called for support, I spent 30 min waiting and the woman's response to me was "Turn on your iMessage." I prefer not to use it

I have an iPhone 5s and a MacBook Pro. Ever since I updated my computer software to Yosemite, it linked my Apple ID with my phone number and I am not receiving messages from iMessage users on my phone, but rather to my computer. I don't like to use iMessage so I keep it off and would like to receive all messages as SMS texts. I have already tried changing my Apple ID password, logging off of my Apple ID in iMessage on my phone and turning it off, and changing settings on messages on my computer. Nothing is working. Either the messages continue to go to my computer or the messages trying to be sent say they cannot be sent.
After spending 30 + minutes waiting for technical support, the woman helping me (who did not give me her name) told me I should just turn on iMessage. After explaining that I don't like having iMessage on and asking why it worked for at least a year up until this point she said "things change and sometimes we don't know why things do what they do". She asked me about various other things on my phone such as bluetooth and told me to turn on and off airplane mode and the call disconnected. I have not been contacted since, even though she has my phone number.
I am hoping for some help and also hoping people don't get the type of service I received tonight.

I think you can solve your problems by removing your AppleID email address from BOTH the Messages setting on your iPhone and the iMessages settings on your Mac.
On iPhone:
Settings > Messages > iMessage > Dissabled
Settings > Messages > Send & Receive > touch the "(i)" < touch "Remove This Email"
On Mac:
Open "Messages" application
Click "Messages menu > Preferences
Click "Accounts"
Select your AppleID account
Under the "You can be reached for messages at" settings, uncheck your AppleID email address and your phone number
Then uncheck the "Enable this account" setting
And lastly, ask all of your friends with iPhones to delete all iMessage conversations (blue bubbles) in their entirety.
To test, send a friend a new text using their phone number (not their email address) and watch the color of the bubble. If it's green then you are using SMS.

My iMac recently went through an update and now my imessages won't go through. I also am having trouble finding imessage on my preferences. Also, the code did not pop up on my iMac for me to input on my iphone 6plus

On preferences on my iMac, there is no option for messages, when I go into messages on my iphone 6 plus it asks for a code but that code doesn't pop up on my computer. My iCloud is connected, wifi is connected and even my facetime is working, just not my imessage and it's really annoying. Can someone please help me?

I think you can solve your problems by removing your AppleID email address from BOTH the Messages setting on your iPhone and the iMessages settings on your Mac.
On iPhone:
Settings > Messages > iMessage > Dissabled
Settings > Messages > Send & Receive > touch the "(i)" < touch "Remove This Email"
On Mac:
Open "Messages" application
Click "Messages menu > Preferences
Click "Accounts"
Select your AppleID account
Under the "You can be reached for messages at" settings, uncheck your AppleID email address and your phone number
Then uncheck the "Enable this account" setting
And lastly, ask all of your friends with iPhones to delete all iMessage conversations (blue bubbles) in their entirety.
To test, send a friend a new text using their phone number (not their email address) and watch the color of the bubble. If it's green then you are using SMS.

Since I downloaded the new update on my iphone 4s I no longer see the delivered message under my text when sent. Also the message is green instead of blue. Does anybody know how to fix this?

Since I downloaded the new update on my iphone 4s I no longer see the delivered message under my text when sent. Also the message is green instead of blue. Does anybody know how to fix this?

You are sending SMS messages. iMessages are blue. Go to Settings>>Messages>>iMessage ON.

FYI: iMessage is only free if you are in a WiFi setting. Otherwise, you pay per text. And ATT will charge a minimum of $20/month for texting, in addition to your data charge and rest of bill.

I'm not giving up my iPhone, and I don't mean to sound angry. But ATT pushed me over the edge. Would love to hear who others use for their iphone carrier and what options are out there. Could this be any more complicated or more of a racket? All I want to do is use the phone the way it was intended.

Sorry my post was confusing.
Yes, my husband went from a regular phone to an iPhone when he changed. I went from a Blackberry to an iPhone. We both have to pay the $30 fee to have a smartphone. We both were able to text before. However, because mine was a Blackberry, ATT doesn't allow the text option to come across w/o paying additional (on top of the $30). They just upped that unlimited texting fee to $20/month (from $10/month).
And yes, after my phone call this morning, that is the first time anyone pointed out to me that "green = imessage" and "blue = all other texts". Sorry. I'm just not that in tune with texting to realize that on my own.
And yes, I was really excited when I updated my firmware to iOS 5 because many of the folks I texted also updated and I could finally text a few customers again.
However, the whole issue about being in a WiFi spot in order for iMessage to really be free... no, I had no clue about that, nor have I ever heard anyone say that until ATT told me today.
Part of this is because I just don't make the connection between being able to use my phone in this spot or that spot. I, very naively, thought that when I paid for service it was available.
Again, this could not possibly be any more complicated to the average user. I thought I was an above-average user but I realize I am very low on the list of knowing how to manage a smartphone effectively.
I'm just very frustrated that it takes so much time to be able to effectively use a smartphone and so much money to try to have one. It's just very very frustrating.
And yes, my husband has been the one monitoring the account. He just didn't mention that I'd been going over on previous months. Apparently it hasn't been much. Just frustrated about the entire issue, all the way around.

Do iMessages stay blue?

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