[goosedragons]

No, the original green was darker and less hard to read messages on. With iOS 7 they made it super bright.

[aikinai]

Good point. The new green was decided after the split with iMessage, so technically Apple could have made it a poor color on purpose.

I still doubt it, especially since it’s the same green for FaceTime, Phone, and the icon that still represents iMessage.

[artursapek]

Yeah, it wasn't always a bad green. They absolutely chose a bad color on purpose - arguably the world's best design company accidentally uses a painful high-saturation low-contrast background color that violates their own design guidelines for like 8 years by mistake? Give me a break.