Apple’s iMessage is making headlines again, as the blue/green bubble debate takes another twist. But these headlines come with a serious new warning for the billion of you with iMessage on your iPhones and for all the Android users you know...As excitement builds ahead of Apple’s WWDC in June, with firmer detail on iOS 18 due for release in the fall, one thing that seems fairly certain is the significant change to iMessage.
We’ve just had a stark reminder of exactly that, with the latest bridge from Apple’s to Google’s walled gardens. This isn’t the first time we’ve seen this particular app propose itself as the solution—last time it disappeared under a very dark security cloud. But now, asSunbird operates as a relay between Android devices and Apple’s ecosystem, essentially converting Android-oriented texts into iMessages when received by Apple devices, and vice versa. As such, those texts appear as blue bubbles.
App-wise, Sunbird is just an Android platform. Users don’t need any Apple devices of their own—Sunbird handles that side. In essence it’s literally a bridge, with the Android user interfacing to Sunbird, and Sunbird into Apple’s ecosystem.