I have a few groups set up in Contacts on my iOS device running iOS 14. when I try to send an email to a group, I get a message that says that the group has no members. But it manifestly does have members. What's up?
iPad Pro, iPadOS 14
I found temporary work around.. Set up a new contact in your Contacts on your iPhone, or iMAC. Do not use the group contact, just a regular individual contact card.
Type the name of the group into the Company space.
Enter all the e-mails into the one e-mail space.
The format you need looks like this:
Put the person's name in " " and the email in < >. Then separate each person with a comma.
"name one" <name1@mail.com>, "name two" <name2@mail.com>,
and you are done.
To send an e-mail to the group, just type the Group name into the To: field and your iPhone will think it is a company and fill in all the addresses. The key is to separate them with commas.
This problem still hasn’t been fixed (28 Nov). This is not good enough. It shouldn’t take weeks to fix. Apple, stop stuffing around with your systems when they work perfectly well.
Please hurry up and fix this - it is very inconvenient.
I have updated to 14.3 as well and this particular issue seems to be fixed. Let's see what pops up now. LOL!
It is sad that it took Apple so long to fix this and folks started to figure out their own work arounds to it. One would think this bug would have shown up in testing before releasing 14.2 Or do they test???
For the cost of Apple products I expect better quality control and service . It seems in Apples case the old adage that you get what you pay for is not necessary true.
Somebody said early on in this thread that Apple does not monitor this discussion group. I'll bet they do but just sit back and let the chips fall where they may.
Stay safe everyone.
How will we receive the fix?
I assume they will issue an update
Whenever Apple issue the bug fix. It’s outstanding at then moment
If you are enrolled in the Beta software program there is a new update that fixes this issue. I'm sure it will be released to the public shortly.
I too have same issue and iOS 14.3 beta 2 did not resolve the issue.
I have the same problem and have spent hours trying to rectify please support we need this fixed
Same problem we all have since 14.2. Hoping for a fix soon.
Thank you for this stop gap solution! The always wait to update but apparently I did not wait long enough.
I updated to 14.3, and it fixed the problem!
Thank you! I thought I had done something wrong and lost the group contacts. I read this yesterday, updated my iphone and ipad and all is good now! Members were still there.
It is fixed with 14.3!
14.3 was released yesterday. It fixes the problem.
Same problem in 14.2. Suddenly the recognized groups show up as unpopulated. Worked fine in previous iOs. The groups work fine on my Mac.
iOS 14 Contacts - Group has no members
