How can I remove myself from a group iMessage that someone else created?

Ocean20 wrote:

You still dont get it do you. You dont pay to receive messages! You pay to send. If you do not want people to have the ability to send you messages then throw away your phone and delete your email account and remove your letterbox from your house and that way noone will be able to send you anything you dont want

I beg to differ! I am charged for every incoming text as well as outgoing. So when anyone in the group replies to the group I take the hit. I do not have unlimited texting so these group messages burn up my limit real fast. I would LOVE to have a way to silmply opt out. If facebook can make it happen, why can't Apple??

It's clear that many are frustrated about group messages. But understand that this is not a problem with just iPhones.

Facebook can control group messages because you use the Facebook system to send the group message (you iPhone is simply an access point for Facebook). They can then track the recipients and block those that don't want inclusion.

Group messages outside of Facebook are either SMS, iMessage or a combination both depending on the sender and receiver. In the case of SMS, your fate is in the hands of the carriers, Apple doesn't have access to the information even though you are using an iPhone for receiving the message. If, as many of you state, you are getting SMS group messages, there is absolutely nothing Apple can do. This is completely under the control of the carriers.

iMessage is a bit different, but very similar in that Apple does not setup the group message. It simply provides the ability to send a group message (much like with Android phones).

So, ultimately group message etiquette is the responsiblity of the people sending the group messages in the first place.

Find out who started the group text and then text them directly to start a new group text without you in it. Sorry to say, you're going to have to ACTUALLY deal with a real person and a real situation directly, OMG! I've done this a few times now and even tho I still get included in new group texts, everyone has now come to understand that it's not for everybody and when to start a new one without me.

I'm charged for incoming and outgoing texts also. There should be a way to remove yourself from a group message thread. It can't be that hard for Apple and other manufacturers to configure. It's a real problem when you don't have unlimited texting.

Ok so I made this group texts how do I get somebody else off because they kept giving out to me and saying got 400 message which can possibly be true so help me get these people off its annoying and I don't like frighting we said sorry and all be some of the thing aren't true nobody has time to do 400 message no matter if they don't have lives so help get them off Reply please

iMessages use data. You would be charged for data usage, not text message fees.

I get charged for texts that are NOT imessages--incoming or outgoing. When someone using a phone other than an iphone, it counts as a text message, not an imessage. The problem with group messages is that when someone replies, everyone in the group gets the reply. We have no way to control how many people send replies. I am hoping for a way to remove myself from a group when I want to stop receiving other peoples' replies.

And yes, we can go back to the person who originated the group message and ask them to take us out of the group, or stop including us in group messages in the first place. And I've done that. But it doesn't stop another person from doing the same thing.

We can turn off group messages altogether on our phone. The phone itself gives us that option. But then you receive no group messages at all. It seems like there should be a way to remove yourself from a group AFTER the group thread has started.

There are times when I want to receive the initial message. But what I don't want to receive are all the "replies" from people I don't know, who don't use iphones and therefore use up my text messaging capabilities. I end up paying for texts from people I don't know and every text, even the shortest "Thanks" or "Ok" count as one text. So if the group message originally included 25 people and they all reply, and then the origintor of the text replies to some of those and other "conversations" start, the thread can quickly grow to 50-100 texts and that has happened.

Not sure if anyone recommended this, and it's tedious, but you could select each unknown number in the message and 'block the caller' which blocks all calls and message from that phone number. If it is someone you know, I'm not sure what the solution is. BUT, I do this on group texts when i don't know the number. ET

There HAS to be something done about this. I want to through my phone into a blender when people use group chats to blow up people's phones at college. Or for when a group chat goes from a serious subject to pointless. APPLE NEEDS to give us an option to unsubscribe from group chats.

I understand that.

Eskinner wrote:

APPLE NEEDS to give us an option to unsubscribe from group chats.

-> http://www.apple.com/feedback/

Blakereilyn, you can (if you wish) turn off the group chat function. Maybe that would help you in circumstances where the group conversations get out of hand. Here is the link that explains how to do it.

http://smallbusiness.chron.com/leave-group-chat-iphone-38248.html

Sure, so what about rules? Apple mail uses rules to do specific tasks. They can't stop people from sending you mail either but they could give you settings in the app to allow you to force a rule on a conversation that at least would stop a particular group chat from buzzing every 2 minutes while other important messages do.

If you take a look at the public information about iOS 8, I believe you will see an option for removing yourself. http://www.apple.com/ios/ios8/

YEA! We will now be able to remove ourselves from a group text. Thank you, Apple.