Group text conversation is adding myself as a duplicate participant
This just started happening tonight.
I have a regular group message with some contacts. Let's call that conversation A.
A new thread just appeared tonight, let's call that conversation B.
A's members are: Me, Person 2, Person 3, and Person 4 (4 participants including me)
B's members are: Me, Person 2, Person 3, Person 4, and my phone number (5 participants, 2 of which are me)
B just appeared out of nowhere. Since it includes a duplicate "me," whenever I send a message, I automatically get another copy of it back.
My group does not see the duplicate "me," only I do. This is what is most frustrating, it only created a new conversation with a duplicate "me" for my phone.
Some notes to keep in mind:
- We all have iPhones.
- These are NOT iMessages, these are regular text messages since one of us has iMessage turned off.
- When I send a message in conversation A (the original), the others see it, but their replies go to the new conversation B (the new one with duplicate "me") on MY phone only, not anyone else's. Everyone else seems to have the same, original conversation.
- If I try deleting conversation B and send messages in the original A, conversation B reappears when someone else replies.
- I cannot remove myself or anyone else from this group conversation, even though it has more than 3 total participants. (Does this only work for iMessage conversations?)
- I checked the details of each member of the conversation, and all the receiving info is set to their phone numbers. It has to be, since this is a regular MMS/group text conversation, not iMessage.
- I checked my own phone settings, I am only set to receive iMessages at my phone number. But, again, this should not be an issue since this is a regular text message conversation.
Has anyone else had this problem before? I don't know if it is a carrier issue since iMessage is turned off on one of our phones, but why would only my phone add a new conversation with another "me" as a contact, for a regular texting conversation?
iPhone 7, iOS 10.1
