Group text...not working.

[Gix1k]

I tried to send a group to people for Father's Day and it would not send to several people. My wife's would not either.

 

[dmb499]

Same here. It's treating it as an mms.

 

[Demosthenes427]

I just sent a group text to 20 people with no problem at all. Maybe you tried to send a group text during a busy server time? It was Father's Day, after all.

 

[BassetCase]

I sent a text to about 15-20 people on Friday after I got the phone and it worked fine. I haven't tried it since then.

 

[Gix1k]

It says "message failed" when I am in messages and preview that message. I tried several times. Maybe it was busy, but odd I found it.

 

[mtbright]

I turned off MMS in settings and was able to send a mass text. I got engaged this weekend and I didnt feel like sending the good news out 1 damn text at a time

 

[Gix1k]

I turned off MMS in settings and was able to send a mass text. I got engaged this weekend and I didnt feel like sending the good news out 1 damn text at a time

Congrats! So you had the same issue before you shutoff MMS?

 

[JohnsonVision]

I tried to send a group to people for Father's Day and it would not send to several people. My wife's would not either.

Got the same issue this morning, as I added names to send to, the top said group MMS. I have the carrier update 5, thus have the MMS option...do we need to turn MMS off?

 

[superxero3]

If you have MMS enabled (even if it doesn't work), then you try to send a text to 1+ people, it will change it to MMS. This is really cool when your talking to multiple iphone users with MMS enabled, because it acts like a chat. It tells them all of the recipients of your original message, and their response messages go to all of them back, so it's like a chat room on AIM or MSN or whatever.

To make it a group SMS instead of an MMS however, the only way i found is to go to settings > messages, and disable MMS, and then send the mass text.