WhatsApp reunites Modern Family for ad about green bubble friends

Four members of ABC’s Modern Family cast person returned to their roles to prima successful a caller commercialized for WhatsApp. The advertisement is designed to beforehand WhatsApp to families that usage a premix of iPhones and Android devices, truthful they tin debar greenish bubbles and the limitations of Apple’s radical chat MMS solution.

If you’re an iPhone idiosyncratic successful the US you astir apt already debar inviting Android friends into radical chats, arsenic it switches from iMessage to MMS and the regular Messages functionality similar work receipts, encryption, and afloat solution images are each disabled. WhatsApp hits connected this straight successful its commercial, with Julie Bowen (Claire Dunphy) explaining to Jesse Tyler Ferguson (Mitchell Pritchett) that “blurry photos” and “weird likes” are wherefore helium hasn’t been invited to the radical chat with his caller Android phone.

“Don’t marque this family’s mistake - power to WhatsApp for seamless and backstage messaging crossed each phones,” is the tagline for the commercial, that besides stars Ty Burrell (Phil Dunphy) and Eric Stonestreet (Cameron Tucker).

The timing of the WhatsApp advertisement comes arsenic Apple begins adding Rich Communication Services (RCS) enactment to iOS 18 to regenerate the aging SMS standard. Meta’s commercialized plays connected the years of taunting and cajoling implicit greenish bubble friends, but it mightiness lone person months to marque its constituent up of the RCS enactment successful iOS 18.

Apple hardly acknowledged its RCS plans during its WWDC keynote earlier this month, and we still don’t cognize much astir however precisely Apple volition instrumentality it. RCS enactment successful iOS 18 is inactive a large woody though, and 1 that mightiness marque it adjacent harder for WhatsApp to person iPhone users to power their radical chats over.

Still, astatine slightest Modern Family fans get to spot immoderate of the archetypal formed backmost unneurotic again for a little spot. The amusement ended 4 years ago, and Hollywood Reporter notes determination are nary plans for a Modern Family reboot.