Group Message in iOS5

We need to use this forum to voice our concern about the mass reply to group messages. We need to talk to Apple store employees to have them inform Apple and others. If enough of us complain and request it be fixed it will get done eventually.

iamdelo wrote:

We need to use this forum to voice our concern about the mass reply to group messages.

No, this is not the appropriate venue. This is a user-to-user tech support forum. The correct place to let Apple know how you feel about this is the Feedback page:

http://www.apple.com/feedback

I have group messaging tuned off AND mms turned off. I learned the hard way that turning this feature off is useless. EVERYONE sees who I sent the text / pic too and everyone gets a text when everyone responds to my original text. Now I just take the extra time to text / send each pic individually. Super annoying. PLEASE FIX APPLE!!

I spoke with some tech people regarding this issue and they said that MMS is an across the board problem that other manufacturers are also experiencing not just the Iphone. When sending a picture, it must be sent MMS. When you have more than one person on it, this MMS acts like an email or chat room where everyone can see and when replying, the setting automatically defaults to a reply all mode. That's why for some of these replies you se an RE: or a subject.

This Christmas when I send out multpile texts, I'll be sure to have MMS and group messaging off as well as iMessage. That is supposed to do the trick as long as what's being sent isn't considered an MMS.

iMessage acts the same way. I was told by Apple support that multiple recipients on a broadcast iMessage is like opening up your own chat room...just like MMS.

I hope they get a fix soon too.

I also am having this exact same issue and i am on verizon, it is very frustratingto get all of these unneeded texts from people that your reciepents are getting for people that i texted not them..please apple fix this bug Imessage stinks!!!

Agreed. This has got to be causing people all over the world significant embarrassment in addition to the unwanted messages from the contacts of contacts. I personally much preferred when multiple recipients could NOT see that they were part of a group message. At least add a bcc line for multiple recipient sms. Not to mention that the new battery management is a joke... Please update IOs 5 with a patch ASAP.

If Apple does not want to respond or address the issue, perhaps the appropriate venue would be in the Apple stores in front of their new customers.

I have had my phone for a year, and updated to IOS5 immediately, now suddenly I have this issue, I don't have group messaging as I am in UK. APPLE PLEASE RESOLVE THIS IT'S EMBARASSING!!!

I sent a feedback message to them but I don't think they'll be getting back to me anytime soon. I've even had problems sending a group message earlier in the day, then sending one of the individuals a single text on a different conversation (thread...whatever Apple calls it) and that message went to the people in the group message sent earlier anyways! What is going on? I would think that this a major privacy issue that would garner a little more attention. Group messaging is a basic feature of featurless phones for crying out loud!

I am on Verizon's network using iOS5 4GS. I send out bulk text messages to groups of 20, 50 and 956 people. I use Contacts XL 3 version 1.0 to send out my mass text messages with everything, including iMessage in messages setting, off except MMS messaging. Noticed the problem last week. It's abominable how BLACKBERRY can do something basic like group texting without the unfortunate disaster we iPhone users are going through at the moment. It's bad enough we must download an app for mass text messages to function, but even worse when the phone stops functioning at it's most basic level of application. I guess for someone who wants to play a million different games, this phone is great. For the common Joe who has more than 10 friends, this phone doesn't function as an effective communication tool. This just goes to prove there truly isn't a perfect cell phone on the market.

That is misinformation. Messages are NOT being sent and its because iOS5 and/or the network is buggy. This has NOTHING to do with the carrier (Verizon is mine).

Wrong.

If a message is not successfully sent, there is an indication the message was not sent.

I'm also having this issue. As a coach for several teams throught the year, i use this to communcate updates and cancelations of games and practices to parents and players. Please fix this.

Matt Jones5 wrote:

I'm also having this issue. As a coach for several teams throught the year, i use this to communcate updates and cancelations of games and practices to parents and players. Please fix this.

As has been noted, no one here can fix anything for you. Submit your feedback directly to Apple:

http://www.apple.com/feedback

The more people who submit feedback, the more likely Apple is to make a change. In the interim, you may want to look at one of the dedicated group messaging programs like GroupMe. It's a cross platform app and works quite well for group messaging.

I have a factory unlocked iphone 4s running on ios 5.1 and i don't have option on group messaging. I'm on T-mobile. I can send group messages through iMessage but the moment i added non-iphone/non-imessage users, It will be sent as individual messages and replies are individual too. I'd like to have that chat like messaging where the whole group can see all replies in one thread. My friends and I are always group messaging each other but not all of us are using iphones. It would be great if there's a fix on this matter ASAP.