How do I text message multiple people at once?

Interesting... didn't notice this before. I can't see a way either.

Maybe this prevents spamming... 😉

Set up an Address Book group & select the Group name for the To: field.

This doesn't work for me. Is there anything special about the way you setup a group? I have a volleyball team that I send practice times to and it would suck having to message them one at a time.




iPhone Mac OS X (10.4.2)

Does each Group member have a cell phone number?

Each person in the group has a phone number with the mobile tag on it. Some have multiple phone numbers. I try to type the group name into the to: area, but the group doesn't show up. I decided to just type the name out and send it, and it acted like it was sending something, but my group members said they never got the message. This was yesterday.

I tried setting up a group in Address Book, but can't seem to sync this new group on my iPhone without losing all other contacts...?

I tried to set up a new group in Address Book on my G4, but could not sync that new group on iPhone without "unsyncing" all my other contacts... any help?

Are you syncing "all contacts" in the iTunes/iPhone preference pane? This the setting that I have and group changes/additions/subtractions are working fine for me. Are you using Windows or OS X?

On a seperate note: You could add your computer specs into your profile from the settings on the right side of the forum so any answers could be specific to your OS, Computer Model, etc..,

Edit: Whoops, looks like you just gave us your model.



PowerBook G4 12", iPhone Mac OS X (10.4.10)

So I figured out the problem. I typed in the name of our volleyball team wrong. Our name is Pickleweasels, but I typed Pickelweasels. The group SMS worked after I noticed my mistake.

Thanks for the help!

I've set up a group in my address book, but it doesn't show up in my iPhone...? Or, wher do I find it in my iPhone contacts?

I just added the group to my iPhone but I am still unable to send and sms to everyone. How do you select the group to be added to the "To:" field?

I can't seem to find the group on the iPhone after syncing "all contacts". All the members are there, but no group to text to...?

i still can't get this to work. I have several groups in my Address Book, with people appearing in multiple groups as applicable. I'm syncing all of my contacts through iTunes, and they appear just fine, but when I create a txt message, there's no way to actually "choose" a group, it just opens the group for you to choose an individual within it. Likewise, typing the name of the group and sending a message that way sends it to the corresponding number of each letter in the name of the group (ie "EVERYONE" becomes 38379663) and i get a txt back from at&t stating the message couldn't be sent because it wasn't a proper 10 digit phone number.

what are the proper steps to sending messages to multiple recipients?

Mac Book Pro (CD) Mac OS X (10.4.10)

why cant you just add individual names. this is ********. having to go back to computer to do this si far from cool

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I have the same issue.

My groups are on the iPhone. In the "To:" field I click on the "+" and then the "groups" button to the left of where it says "All Contacts" and it brings up a list of my groups.

Then I see this:

All Contacts >
Baseball >
Coaches >
Growth >

Those are the 3 groups I have set up in address book. However if I choose "baseball" by pushing it, all it does is bring me into the list of the members within the "baseball" group. It DOES NOT select the WHOLE group thereby forcing me to click on each member of the group one at a time. This has to be an easy fix since I can send to a group very easily through apple's mail program.

Please fix this Apple. This doesn't seem like it would be that hard to fix but it is an important function that people use a lot and that saves time, particularly if a group is large.

Thank you.