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I have a few questions about iMessage.
How exactly does iMessage group chat work? Does it send the message to each of my recipients as a broadcast sort of thing or does it actually create a group?
What if one of my recipients replies? Is the message seen by everyone in the group or just by the original sender?
What if i did want to distinguish between a broadcast message and creating a group?
Would really appreciate some help!
iPhone 4, iOS 5
According to the iOS 5 User Guide, it does not create a group, but you enter multiple recipients. The message goes to each of them. For MMS group messaging, (not available in all areas) you must turn it on in Settings>messages.
IT doesn't say with SMS messages, but for MMS messages, replies are sent ONLY to you; they aren't copied to the others in the group.
There is no mention of a broadcast message.
Hope that helps. It's in the chapter entitled: Messages
Yeah its an actual group. you have to create a new message and when you are adding a contact add as many people who you want to be in it. obviously they have to have ios5. i dont think you can add more people in after you create the group. you will have to make a new one. and yes everyone can see your message
I want points by the way haha i kid i kid... but seriously
I too have a question about how im works in a group setting that I came across today.
I have a group of friends all in Canada(so there's no group messaging option in the settings->messages). Everyone had im enabled, then one person disabled it and now there is no group from my view. However, I'm receiving messages from other members and it shows up in the group view. If I were to reply it'd go as an sms. The same would happen if I were to individually msg that disabled im user(makes sense). But I'm confused as to how the group is not failing for the others but instead for me. This group was created by me, but that doesn't matter since there's another group it fails at too, so I'm completely lost here. Every other member in the group is able to use im in the group convo except me!
How does iMessage Group Chat work?
