Text message colours

DUTR

I've recently changed my android phone, one of the things I have noticed is that the text messages from different recipients are in different colours, any reason for this?
Also... anyone using RCS on there handset?

Neil_Jones

What version of Android did you have before and what do you have now, and what phone?

Bear in mind a lot of providers like to skin/customise their phones (sometimes dramatically) before they get pushed out to manufacture so it may be a lot of what you saw previously bore little resemblance to how Android can look in its raw/stock form (the Nexus range gets dibs on Android upgrades and tends to be stock Android).

DUTR

Neil_Jones wrote: »

What version of Android did you have before and what do you have now, and what phone?

Bear in mind a lot of providers like to skin/customise their phones (sometimes dramatically) before they get pushed out to manufacture so it may be a lot of what you saw previously bore little resemblance to how Android can look in its raw/stock form (the Nexus range gets dibs on Android upgrades and tends to be stock Android).

Xperia Z (android 5) prior (5yrs old) now XZ2 android 8, what I mean is that recipient X colour of text is different to recipient Y, and lots of colours and shades used.

wongataa

DUTR wrote: »

Xperia Z (android 5) prior (5yrs old) now XZ2 android 8, what I mean is that recipient X colour of text is different to recipient Y, and lots of colours and shades used.

It has been like that in the Messages app for ages. I suppose it is to help you easily differentiate between different recipients. I doubt many people are using RCS as I don't think it is very well supported in the UK yet.

custardy

Just use a different messaging app if it bothers you.
My default is Textra

indesisiv

The xz2 use the stock android messages app, its just a standard thing in that.

DUTR

custardy wrote: »

Just use a different messaging app if it bothers you.
My default is Textra

I never said it bothered me, just wondered if there was any logic behind it.
It seems the standard app is already RCS compatible , only for other networks other than Voda to support it.

stragglebod

Open a conversation, tap the three dots button at the top right, choose People & Options.

At the bottom is a list of people in the conversation with an artist's palette icon next to the name. Tap that to select a colour.