Group Messaging toggle is missing in IOS 17

Thanks for the suggestion! But it looks like this app still uses the iPhone messaging service to send the message, so I will not be able to send the same message to a group of people individually (Bcc for text).

Sc_psalm55 wrote:

After further investigation this is not a solution. I removed myself from the group when i turned off MMS and everyone else is seeing the all the replies except me, the originator of the group text.

Why isn't anyone from apple responding to the issue?

Have you contacted Apple about it? Apple doesn't read here in this user-to-user forum for feedback. You can contact them directly using the Support link at the bottom left of every page of these forums.

Hello123g~ I have an iPhone SE, my husband an iphone X. The update caused the removal of group messaging toggle in my phone, but not in his. He has done all the updates and continues to have the group message toggle. I now do not think that it was an intentional removal, I think it is a glitch that randomly affects. Perhaps with the next update, things will smooth out. It is not a feature that they would knowingly remove. It makes no sense that they would.

I am not able to communicate with anyone who uses Androids ever since i migrated to ios 17.3. 2 days ago. My manager told me I cannot work until I can communicate by text with everyone in my group. As of today I am suspended without pay. Is there a fix for this ??

Gicomeng wrote:

I am not able to communicate with anyone who uses Androids ever since i migrated to ios 17.3. 2 days ago. My manager told me I cannot work until I can communicate by text with everyone in my group. As of today I am suspended without pay. Is there a fix for this ??

You need to contact your carrier.

I had the same issue, not sure what update it was, but definitely 17+ on my XR. I resolved it by disabling SMS but leaving MMS Messaging on. It took me all day to figure something out after updating both my computer and phone, logging off, signing out, restarting etc. There is/was definitely something wrong.

I tried the above and it didn’t work. The toggle button is still missing. I can send out a group text, but it goes to everyone individually and I receive the responses individually, which basically does me no good at all. I usually use group for making plans with a group and it does the group no good when they can’t see what others posted such as: who’s bringing what and ideas.

bomberboy wrote:

Has anyone else lost all MMS settings where you don’t have an option to turn MMS messaging off anymore?

It looks like Apple is not going to bring this feature back.

If you don't see the MMS toggle, you need to contact your carrier. If you have that feature on your account, the toggle should be there.

The only toggle that was removed was the Group Message toggle.

I had to do a reset on my settings first. I lost all my settings, but after that, it allowed me to send individual messages to a group of people with MMS toggled off. Before the settings reset, with MMS off, if I messaged more than one person, the message would fail to send.

No that will not work because your still going to get messages from all the others in the group that do not reply back to the original sender in a separate msg. Maybe by blocking the the group will stop it but what about next time will you not get the important msg your needing by blocking the group?

Apple needs to put that setting back!. The on/off toggle button for group msg in the setting menu.

This worked for me, after months of not being able to use a group chat with non iphone users. I would receive texts individually and they would send out individually. So happy something finally worked. I submitted feedback to apple as well.

Sharonl22 wrote:

WHy, we should be able to send text as well. Who uses email anymore?

Lots of people. It has different features than SMS/iMessages that make it far superior in many cases. It's a question of using the best tool for the job. A hand axe is fine if you're just chopping a little wood for the fireplace. But, while you could use it to chop down a tree, a chain saw is a whole lot easier and more effective.

Sharonl22 wrote:

Who uses email anymore?

Lots of people. It has different features than SMS/iMessages that make it far superior in many cases. It's a question of using the best tool for the job. A hand axe is fine if you're just chopping a little wood for the fireplace. But, while you could use it to chop down a tree, a chain saw is a whole lot easier and more effective.

The person to whom sberman was responding was asking about a business use. Email is definitely more professional.

I had to reset my phone through settings to get this to work. I had same issue as you when I had MMS messaging off, I couldn’t send or receive messages to/from more than one person (bcc essentially). Once I reset my phone I was able to send mass text to multiple people and receive group messages with MMS off. Hope this helps.