Switching to Android with a partner who is not happy with the idea?

secrec

DeletedUser349 Do you know what its like to be allergic to cat?

mar2112

With such a shallow partner the answer is obvious. New phone and new partner.

DeletedUser495

mar2112 I agree on the phone part but there are many ways we can follow before resorting to drastic measures.

chinook

spl4tt I encourage you to find some videos containing "green bubble" and "ick" in it. Instagram or TikTok :D

spl4tt

chinook I know the hype around this. I don't need people like this in my life. People I know are not that stupid. simple. You should filter your social life

beans

I would tell them if green chat bubbles are enough to come between you then the relationship was not strong at all in the first place.

Not to mention thats such an airheaded argument 🙄

Phead

DeletedUser349 So, have any of you been able to work through this issue with a significant other? Did you do anything to resolve the issue? What was the result?

Yes, I have. We had been using iMessage for quite some time back then and we all had to adapt to use Signal instead (I even managed to convince some of them to use SimpleX). The all accepted the change because it was important to me and so it was important to them. I supported them during the transition and after and now, about three years later, iMessage is an ugly thing from an unpleasant past.

In my opinion, anything thats important to you should also be important to your partner. The two of you should respect and appreciate one another enough to work this out - in the end it's really just about colors. If you cannot get past that, then maybe there are bigger underlying problems in your relationship. You should deal with those first before you ditch your iPhone.

chance

Never had this problem with a SO but with many friends and family who want to use iMessage because "muh blue bubbles though!"

I just calmy explain that it is ridiculous for others to pressure people into buying a device (that are ridiculously overpriced as well) for the sole reason of using iMessage when there are plenty of other really good cross platform chatting apps. Your partner would have a case if iMessage was cross platform but as we know it isn't and this is the exact behavior Apple wants to encourage to keep people held hostage inside their ecosystem.

starglider

Maybe this is excessive, but have you considered https://bluebubbles.app/ ?

There are a lot of shenanigans involved if you want iMessage to continue working with your phone number (though it's possible), but if your spouse is willing to iMessage the email address associated with your iCloud account (really just a one-time thing of adding that to your contact record on her phone), then everything will proceed normally.

I use it to get iMessage on my PC, but when I ultimately switch to GOS, I'm planning to keep it so that group chats that like certain iMessage features don't get angry with me.

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