How do you create a group on the iPad or iphone

I have been trying to do this all day today - after an hour of searching on the Internet, I finally found this thread. I'm pretty sure I could create new groups in my iPad 2 with ios 5. It is strange that we have to create a new single contact and add all the address we want in that contact. Why does the Contacts app still have Groups in it if you can't use it? I'll try creating new contacts with my group names and see how that goes. It seems that ios 6 has taken us a few steps backwards. Sheesh!

Turtle07 wrote:

I have been trying to do this all day today - after an hour of searching on the Internet, I finally found this thread. I'm pretty sure I could create new groups in my iPad 2 with ios 5.

I'm absolutely positive this was not possible. (and it still isn't possible with iOS 5)

Can't thank you enough, merrymaryj! This has been bugging me forever, but I tried your method and it works.

HOW TO create a group address on your iPad Address Book app . . .

MerryMaryJ had a good idea. The easiest way seems to be to start on your Macbook or MBP. You *might* be able to paste addresses one-by-one from your Address Book app into a group address, but I found this to be quicker.

1. On your Mac laptop, create a new message in your Mail app.

2. In the TO: box, put all the addressees that you want in your group.

3. COPY all those addresses (Cmd-A, Cmd-C) to memory.

4. PASTE them (Cmd-V) into the body of the message.

5. Send the message to yourself.

6. Use your Mail app on the iPad to collect the message

7. Use Cmd-A Cmd-C again to copy the addresses in the message body to the iPad's memory

8. Create a new iPad Address Book entry for the group. Use the Firstname box if the group name is only one word, the Firstname and Lastname boxes if it's two words.

9. In the email box for that group, paste (Cmd-V) the addresses from the email message you sent yourself. They'll be in exactly the right format for iPad Mail to read them correctly.

10. Send a test message to check the validity of the group address. It should be OK

This was so very helpful, thank you! - and so very frustrating! By which I mean that it's a fantastic workaround, but it's ludicrous that it's needed.How on earth could Apple, of all companies, not foresee that people might want to use groups of contacts to send emails to them 😕 ???

Not very easy if you are on a PC and using the default Contacts app. I personally sync my contacts with icloud from where i create my contact groups. However have used these steps before using icloud in order to group contacts on my iphone.

i'm attempting to create group mailing on my mac book pro...... not my iphone or ipad - so it sounds like it's possible????

The comma symbol is not available in Contacts so I am unable to separate them that way. I tried the other method (via email) but Contacts is not allowing me to paste anything, either. Any other ideas?

This was my workaround since I wasn't able to paste the string of addresses from email, nor use a comma to enter them on one line.

1. Go to the To: line in email

2. add the first name in your group to the To: field

3. double-click on it. this will open the Contact for that person.

4. Select and copy the email address.

5. Create a new contact and give it the group name.

6. Go down to the email address area and add email address fields until you come to Other.

7. paste the first address there

8. Go back out to email, add then double click the next name, select and copy the email address, go back to contacts, hit Add Email and paste that address. Etc.

Each new email field you add says Home after the Other field. You can start on any email line but this is how I wanted to do it.

It would let me paste one at a time like but not the entire string at once, on one line. Painstaking but it gets done.