How do you delete group text suggestions on iOS 13?

To make matters worse, if a contact shares his information in a message and their name is different from what you have in your contacts list, the suggestions show both names the next time you start a new message. Not being able to delete this garbage is nonsense.

My favorite thing about this snafu; “John S” is part of 3 groups with his name in a different order with each one. “John V” is part of 5 groups! All possible choices come up except the option to contact just 1 John! Don’t text when you’re tired, you’ll never know what you sent to whom

Michellet18 can't answer the question because apple took away the functionality. Just like you can't stop the phone from making memories out of your photos. I'm so sick of trying to figure away or opting out of something. Change the thought process. If someone wants to do something let them opt in. Instead of having the entire apple world figure out how to opt out. Bottom line is this problem has not gone away. This is why Michelle won't respond because she can't.

They continue to reduce value add functionality release over release. ie. 3D in the "Find My" app is now gone. Sad that Apple has come to this but if you want a fancy new Memoji then you have come to the right place.

I was going to get the z flip or 5g ultra from Samsung with free galaxy + headphones. The new ones crush the airpods pro and now have an iPhone app and are 100 bucks cheaper. However once your in ios it's hard to get out. Just hanging on for a real update in iPhone 12. If nothing then Samsung it is for sure

I’m afraid it’ll be April, May, June etc with no answer. I’ve tried everything else so why not the “Genius Desk”? Guy who was supposed to be Genius was totally confused. I had to actually show him what I was asking. Apparently he has never sent or received a group text!

Ok Apple, give us a way to remove/delete group suggestions! 1500 bucks for a phone and you can't do something you could easily do with previous Iphone versions??!! Fix it or Samsung will replace you in my world!!!!

this is beyond annoying. Twice I have sent a group text to my kids to only find out that I selected the group that included my daughter’s ex-husband! Fix this.

i had an Android before, and it is beginning to look very appealing.

Thanks for confining update is real! This “home arrest” is necessary but stressful. Grateful for any diversion, especially an easy & comprehensive fix for a super annoyance.

be calm, be kind, be well

I just downloaded the update & I still get old group mesages I have used in the past. I cleared out my messages before trying too & they still come up. Not as many but still enough to be a pain!

I did the update, got rid of most group message suggestions. What I’m thinking is that it is only giving me suggestions for the groups that are currently in my inbox. I don’t have any super old suggestions like I used to. 🙏🏽

This does not solve the problem. I know that the people at Apple are not stupid so I do not know why it’s so hard to answer a simple question. I have an iPhone XR, and let’s say I’ve sent a message to Susie, Bob, Linda, Joe, Patti and Ralph —- I cannot ever get rid of that particular group. It ALWAYS shows up as soon as I type Susie in a new message. So let’s say I don’t want Ralph in the group anymore, since I cannot delete the previous group (which is what I WANT to do) I have to redo the whole message without Ralph. So then—guess what? Now I have TWO groups that start with Susie and it is VERY easy to tap the one that includes Ralph. DO YOU GET IT?? And the reverse is true. Let’s say the first group text did not include Ralph. There is no way to simply add Ralph to the group. Instead, once again I’m stuck with multiple groups. Now I need to scour every name in each group text to see which one I need to use—oh, and guess what? If it’s not exactly the same group (you remember, the one that cannot deleted!) I once again have to create yet ANOTHER group. I cannot tell you how many people hate this new Apple “technology” that somehow failed to include this very practical feature that every iPhone user has relied upon in the past. It’s ridiculous.

So what is the answer? How do we delete or add to a group text. I’m guess that Apple has NO answer for this flaw bc everything I’ve seen on this topic from Apple does not answer the very simple question—how do we delete or add???

FAIL!!! I can’t find any way to delete these group suggestions in text messages. Everything in settings is turned off. I have a large family and years of old texts half of which aren’t even the same number anymore. This is annoying and wrong.

Puzzling, as there are those like me that once you delete the group texts after sending...I also go as far as totally closing the message app...the group suggestion is automatically not showing. Use to be the old long gone groups along with other any phone contact you ever grouped with THEIR contacts showed up on my phone. Still hesitate to group send but the few times I have just closing message not just leaving it to go to another app, really swiping up to close. Always a hard reset to fall back on. Keeping old text I believe a few let it be known as long as those group texts are not deleted...you will get the suggestion. If a message is important one can always take a screenshot of the message prior to deleting. No idea why many are PROBLEM SOLVED and others are struggling with it.

Once you have the latest software installed (13.4.1) you should no longer be plagued by those suggested groups. However, if I have a recent message still on my main message screen from someone that sent a group text it will become a suggested group text. Try deleting your text that was part of a group and open a new text...it should be gone...