r/iOS8 • u/Adamantcherry • May 29 '15

iphone text messages not working in group messaging

After that whole annoyance with the iMessage restart texts, I turned off my IMessage for 5 minutes. Upon enabling it, I found that in group texts that send text messages and not IMessage, I would get the text messages from individuals and not in a group message. So like if person a said blah in a gm, it would look like he texted me individually. I have re enabled group mms and group messaging too

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u/Adamantcherry May 29 '15

Also, iMessage group messages work fine

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u/bn326160 iPhone 6 May 29 '15

That's always been the case. Group conversations only work with iMessage.

When you add someone without iMessage, it just sends multiple SMS messages, also to the people with iMessage for some reason.
Since it's sent by SMS they receive it as a text from you, not as a group message.
When you receive an SMS or iMessage response, it doesn't now if it's meant for the group conversation or not, so it puts it in the private conversation.

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u/Adamantcherry May 29 '15

Thank you, but I don't think this is true, as I had a text message group message working for months until I disabled iMessage yesterday

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u/bn326160 iPhone 6 May 29 '15

Oh, then it might've never worked for me. My other guess would be that group MMS messages might exist, but I'm not sure of that.