I hate Apple can't add people to a group text

February 05, 2022, 10:07 PM

p08

Fucking Apple says scroll down and hit the + sign to add someone. Well that would be fucking great if my phone displayed the fucking + sign. If I didn't hate Android phones so bad I would switch back.

February 05, 2022, 10:11 PM

parabellum

Group text? Sounds like something hippies would do.

February 05, 2022, 10:22 PM

p08

quote:
Originally posted by parabellum:
Group text? Sounds like something hippies would do.

My father recently had a heart attack at 87 and is currently in the hospital. It is for all my siblings and grandchildren.

February 05, 2022, 10:23 PM

Ronin1069

You are correct, it is a weird limitation.

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February 05, 2022, 10:25 PM

parabellum

quote:
Originally posted by p08:
My father recently had a heart attack at 87 and is currently in the hospital. It is for all my siblings and grandchildren.

humor - noun

hu·mor ˈhyü-mər

a : that quality which appeals to a sense of the ludicrous or absurdly incongruous : a funny or amusing quality

b : the mental faculty of discovering, expressing, or appreciating the ludicrous or absurdly incongruous : the ability to be funny or to be amused by things that are funny

c : something that is or is designed to be comical or amusing

February 05, 2022, 10:29 PM

p08

quote:
Originally posted by parabellum:
quote:
Originally posted by p08:
My father recently had a heart attack at 87 and is currently in the hospital. It is for all my siblings and grandchildren.

humor - noun

hu·mor ˈhyü-mər

a : that quality which appeals to a sense of the ludicrous or absurdly incongruous : a funny or amusing quality

b : the mental faculty of discovering, expressing, or appreciating the ludicrous or absurdly incongruous : the ability to be funny or to be amused by things that are funny

c : something that is or is designed to be comical or amusing

Sorry, not in a light hearted mood at the moment.

February 05, 2022, 10:41 PM

Jamess1

Email sent

February 05, 2022, 10:51 PM

Pyker

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Select 'new message', in the window that opens tap the + sign on the right of the 'to' field to add names from your contact list, repeat to add more names. When you have all the people you want in the 'to' field, tap in the message body to start typing the message.

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February 05, 2022, 11:08 PM

p08

I had 7 people in the group, needed to add one more. Still don't see anything that lets me do it.

February 05, 2022, 11:11 PM

Ronin1069

quote:
Originally posted by p08:
I had 7 people in the group, needed to add one more. Still don't see anything that lets me do it.

It will only work if everyone in the group is on an iPhone, otherwise you’ll have to start a new text thread. Trust me, I’ve spent hours investigating this over the past year.

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February 05, 2022, 11:13 PM

Pyker

quote:
Originally posted by p08:
I had 7 people in the group, needed to add one more. Still don't see anything that lets me do it.

Probably because not everyone in your group is on an iPhone. You just need to create a new group and add all 8 people to that one.

February 05, 2022, 11:16 PM

p08

quote:
Originally posted by Pyker:
quote:
Originally posted by p08:
I had 7 people in the group, needed to add one more. Still don't see anything that lets me do it.

Probably because not everyone in your group is on an iPhone. You just need to create a new group and add all 8 people to that one.

That is what I did, you would think in this day they could make things work between different types of phones. So fucking stupid.

Thanks to all who tried to help.

February 06, 2022, 12:28 AM

CPD SIG

I hate that I can't leave group texts!

And here I am, stuck with 27 idiots that all believe they need to respond to something innocuous.
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My pocket sounds like a patient crashing in an ER room.

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February 06, 2022, 03:57 AM

OKCGene

I just went to a text with multiple people and tried to add more.

At the top of the screen it shows the people already in the list. I clicked on that (well touched with my finger) and that brought up another screen. In that new screen, it listed the current people and has an arrow on the right side. I clicked on that, and the new screen has a "+ Add Contact" button. I clicked on that and a new screen opened up to where you add additional contacts.

I am on an iphone.
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February 06, 2022, 04:21 AM

V-Tail

I just tried what Gene said. Everything was the same for me until I got to the last step. I did not get an option to add a contact.

The group that I used for this experiment is a group of two people, my wife, who uses an iPhone, and my son, who uses an Android.

Thinking about it, there are three likely possibilities for the make-up of the existing group:

All iPhone users
All Android users
A mix of iPhone and Android users

I did not try Gene's method with all three combinations, just with the mix. Ronin1069 probably has the correct answer.

Question for Gene: was everybody in your experimental group an iPhone user?

February 06, 2022, 12:11 PM

trapper189

quote:
Originally posted by CPD SIG:
I hate that I can't leave group texts!

And here I am, stuck with 27 idiots that all believe they need to respond to something innocuous.
Beep-beep
Beep-beep

Beep-beep
Beep-beep
Beep-beep
Beep-beep

Beep-beep
Beep-beep

Beep-beep
Beep-beep
Beep-beep
Beep-beep
Beep-beep

Beep-beep....

My pocket sounds like a patient crashing in an ER room.

Change your text notification sound to Sherwood Forest and yell "Release the hounds!” every time you hear it.

February 06, 2022, 12:54 PM

OKCGene

quote:
Originally posted by V-Tail:
I just tried what Gene said. Everything was the same for me until I got to the last step. I did not get an option to add a contact.

The group that I used for this experiment is a group of two people, my wife, who uses an iPhone, and my son, who uses an Android.

Thinking about it, there are three likely possibilities for the make-up of the existing group:
All iPhone users

All Android users

A mix of iPhone and Android users
I did not try Gene's method with all three combinations, just with the mix. Ronin1069 probably has the correct answer.

Question for Gene: was everybody in your experimental group an iPhone user?

Yes, so it looks as if Android and Apple are not playing well together.
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February 07, 2022, 08:26 AM

sigcrazy7

It’s because Apple groups live on iMessage servers. When you add an Android user, it must make the group a SMS group, so the existing thread won’t continue as is. Yes, it sucks. Too bad Android users aren’t able to use IMessage resources, but I guess it’s not so simple. iMessage does way more than the SMS system does.

When a group chat’s notifications become annoying, you can silence just that group. Swipe left on the group and select the little bell with a line through it.

February 07, 2022, 08:58 AM

Georgeair

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I hate that I can't leave group texts!

Or do what I have with family ones, etc. From Messages screen partially swipe left which reveals Delete and Mute. Press Mute and you can still see content but alerts are silenced. Don't swipe completely left or you'll delete thread.

February 07, 2022, 09:07 AM

trapper189

Really dumb question, but does the bell with the slash mean it's already muted, or does that mean I'm muting it by pressing it?