What the title said. I've seen a few posts stating that you need to have a minimum of 4 participants to leave a chat. How can this possibly be the case? It makes no sense. Why don't I have control over group chats?
So far I've disabled iMessage completely and gone back to SMS, hopefully someone can shed more light on this.
iPhone 7, iOS 12
Types of group messages
The three types of group messages that you might see are: group iMessage, group MMS, and group SMS. The Messages app automatically chooses the type of group message to send based on you and your recipients' settings, network connection, and carrier plan. For example:
Add or remove someone from a group conversation
Anyone in a group iMessage can add or remove someone from the conversation. You can remove a person from a group iMessage that has at least three other people. You can’t add or remove people from group MMS messages or group SMS messages.
Send a group message on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple ...
Types of group messages
The three types of group messages that you might see are: group iMessage, group MMS, and group SMS. The Messages app automatically chooses the type of group message to send based on you and your recipients' settings, network connection, and carrier plan. For example:
Add or remove someone from a group conversation
Anyone in a group iMessage can add or remove someone from the conversation. You can remove a person from a group iMessage that has at least three other people. You can’t add or remove people from group MMS messages or group SMS messages.
Send a group message on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple ...
@SravanKrA thanks for the response, it was an iMessage chat with 3 participants (all iPhones). I'm more curious to know why a chat needs 3 or more other people before I'm priviledged enough to leave it.
Understandably, this site probably isn't the best place for that as Apple employees probably don't get involved.
The "Leave group chat" button on iMessage is broken
