How to Change Backgrounds for Text Message on iPhone & Samsung

Feel annoyed by the white or grey background of text messages? Want to add more expressive effects to your text messages on mobile phone?

Just change the text bubble or message background wallpaper or color.

However, you may notice that there is no setting option from Messages app on your iPhone or Samsung.

No worry and this page is the solution.

Here you can get 3 easy ways to change your text message background color, wallpaper and bubble effects on Samsung and iPhone.

• Way 1. How to change text message background bubble on iPhone without jailbreak
• Way 2. How to change background wallpaper for text messages on iPhone (jailbroken)
• Way 3. How to change text message background theme on Samsung
• FAQs About Changing Backgrounds for Text Messages

Way 1. How to change text message background bubble on iPhone without jailbreak

Though Apple provides some message effects for bubble e and screen on iPhone, you may find the effects are limited styles and models.

Memoji, animoji and emoji effects of bubble texts or full screen are only less than 10, and Memoji, animoji effects are only available on iPhone X and later.

So there are some apps that support to change text messages background on iPhone.

FancyBubble is one of them.

Step 1. Go to App Store on your iPhone, Input "FancyBubble" in the search bar, install and run it on your iPhone.

Step 2. In the main interface, select "Messages" app from its message types drop-down list. Then select the bubble effect with typing the detailed texts, text font, text size by dragging the ball and text color.

Step 3. Hit "Send" then you just need to select the receiver and complete the Subject or comment and hit "Send" button to send the text messages with background bubble effects.

Note: When you apply the background effects to send text messages on iPhone, you had better enable iMessages, because text messages with effects will become MMS, and it charges extra fee according to your carrier plan. Check here to learn more about differences between text messages and iMessages.

The frequent operations on changeing the text message or iMessages background on iPhone, your accidental deletion of messages may happen sometimes.

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Here this app only supports background bubble changing for text messages. If you want to change the whole text message wallpaper, visit the next method.

Way 2. How to change background wallpaper for text messages on iPhone (jailbroken)

For changing the full screen of text background, you need to jailbreak iPhone firstly. Then download Cydia, as the alternative to App Store, because it is the app providers for jailbroken iPhone.

Step 1. Run Cydia, input "SMS/Desktop Background" in the search bar to install this app on your jailbroken iPhone.

Step 2. Go to "Settings" > "Wallpaper" to select the wallpaper you want to use from your own Photos app.

Step 3. Hit "i" icon on the upper left side of the photo you've selected, and your SMS background wallpaper will be changed as the selected one.

In this way, you can get more freedom to customize your own text message background wallpaper. However, you need to jailbreak your iPhone.

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Note: When you unjailbreak your iPhone, your iPhone will be restored to factory settings. So just remember to backup iPhone in case of data loss.

Step 1. Free download iOS System Recovery and install it to your computer.

Run it immediately and connect your iPhone to your computer with the USB cable.

Step 2. Go to "iOS System Recovery", select "Other" from the system error, and click "Start" button and this software will detect your iPhone is normal.

Step 3. You need to click the question mark to get your iPhone into recovery mode or DFU mode manually.

Step 4. Just click the "Back" option and select "Advanced Mode" and "Confirm" button to start to download the firmware and restore your iPhone to factory settings.

Then you can check your iPhone to see if it has to be unjailbroken.

Way 3. How to change text message background theme on Samsung

Coincidentally, Android phone also leaves you no option to change or customize text message background. What you need is still a third-party app to help you do that.

Here we take the apk, SMS Wallpaper Background for Texting, as the example.

This apk lets you choose your favorite SMS chat background including text bubble and background wallpaper. More interestingly, you could change the wallpaper from your own photo library freely.

Step 1. Search SMS Wallpaper Background for Texting on Google Play, download and install it on your Samsung phone.

Step 2. When you run it, it will pop up to let you set this app as the default SMS app. You need to hit "YES" > "Start" to enter your message screen.

Step 3. When you open Messages app, hit the three-dot option on the top right corner to select "Appearance" to set "Conversation Settings", where you can "Set Background", "Set Conversation Bubbles", "Set Font", and "Block Conversation".

After you set the text message effects, your text message background will be changed automatically.

Note: You can set background or bubble by opening a certain message, which gives you one more option to "Set Avatar Image" for the message contact.

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