Raai
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Q: Group text

Is there any person in this world who has any idea , how to send a group text with a iPhone 5 ios7 phone?  On ios6 ,3rd party apps worked.

Needle picking 50 contacts between 600+ contacts 1 by 1 , 3x a week , and start at A after each pick is not a option in 2013 !!!

Please help , that is if there is help ????

iPhone 5, iOS 7.0.2, The same problem on ipad

Posted on Oct 21, 2013 10:51 PM

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Raai

Q: Group text

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    nbar nbar Oct 21, 2013 11:21 PM in response to Raai
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    Oct 21, 2013 11:21 PM in response to Raai

    1) To enable group messaging (multiple recipients at once), make sure Settings > Messages > Group Messages: On

     

    See this article:

    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5760

     

    2) Still, it is currently not possible to select a single group to send a message to, rather than handpicking contacts to send the message to.You cannot do this directly within iOS 7 without a third party application.

    -This is despite the fact you can still create a group using your Contacts application in OSX and then syncing your device.

     

    More information:

     

    "Groups. iOS can't create groups of contacts, and it can't send email messages to a group synced from your Mac or PC. Both are nutty omissions, given how fundamental groups are to email and other communications. Worse, if you select a group as an addressee in Mail, you get a list of the members, of whom you can pick one and only one to add to the To or Cc field of your message. There's no way to select multiple group members, so you have to reopen the group to select another person -- essentially, making groups unworkable if you have more than a handful of people in them."

     


     

    https://discussions.apple.com/message/23434752#23434752

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