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Group Message in iOS5

I have following problem: If i want to send a group message with the message App to more than 1 numbers and one of them uses iMessage, the message will only be sent to the friend with iMessage, all others don´t receive a message! Thats a bug APPLE!!!!

iPhone 4, iOS 5

Posted on Oct 20, 2011 2:19 PM

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Oct 20, 2011 2:45 PM in response to Allan Sampson

For message Groups i use an App which lets me make Groups named "uContacts" (The problem appears with all other apps, too, where you can create Groups for messaging)

If i manually add Numbers in the Message App there are all green (standard SMS, that´s the way i want to send the Messages), but if i use the Group App, they are all blue, but not everyone of them has iMessage and iOS5!


I don´t want to pick them manually everytime i have to send a group message because i often have to inform them about sth.!

In iOS4 that worked without problems! Thats a bug! Apple has to be informed about that!


I hope you understand my problem!

Oct 21, 2011 2:48 PM in response to Allan Sampson

I'm having the opposite problem -- a friend sent out a group message. When I reply, the only thing I can do is to reply all -- there's not the option to reply just to the person who sent the message. Now I have my friend's friends texting me "hi, who is this, I got a text from you."


Is there a way to reply-to-only-sender? Also it seems like a bug that when you reply it's reply-all but there's no indication of that at the time you press Send.

Nov 10, 2011 8:13 AM in response to nashvegas08

When you go to answer back to the sender the Top shows "Group Message" even though in Settings>Messenger>Group Message is set to OFF. That means the phone is setting it up to go to all people within the group. This is a iOS5 software problem and not a carrier problem. Apple needs to fix it, the Setting for Group Message on/off only does an "ON" no matter what it is set to.

Nov 10, 2011 10:04 AM in response to nashvegas08

I just reported the problem to a person at Apple. He tried to duplicate the problem on his own phone and got the same results. He said that he would forward the problem to the eng. group. I told him to add a note to it saying that they should check this community support site and they would see that other people are experiencing the same thing. Hope it gets fixed.

Group Message in iOS5

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