Group MMS, iPhone 5, and T-Mobile

[adamfishercox]

I'm using the iPhone 5 on T-Mobile, and Group MMS doesn't work. It works fine if everyone uses iMessages, which makes sense, but if I add in anyone without an iPhone, my group message just sends as an individual text from me.

For example: I send a group text to Tim, Matt, and Bob. Each of them gets a message from Adam, but the other members aren't included in it. If they reply, I get the reply as a message from Bob, but Tim and Matt don't get it at all.

I flat out do not receive group messages that others have started. For example, if Bob creates a group text with Matt, Tim and me, Matt and Tim will get a group text as intended and can reply to each other, but I get nothing. Not an individual text, not a group text: nothing.

Does anyone know a) why this would be a problem and b) if there's any non-jailbreak way to fix this or even just an app to work around it?

 

[Mr Hill]

It should work fine without a jailbreak. When you go to the messages settings just make sure group messaging is on. Mine is working on my 4S with no issues.

 

[adamfishercox]

that's part of the problem, I don't even have that toggle. You have it on TMobile without doing anything besides popping in the SIM?

 

[Daveoc64]

To see the toggle (and use the functionality), it has to be enabled by your carrier.

As your carrier (T-Mobile USA) isn't a supported carrier, they have no way to actually do that.

 

[Mr Hill]

that's part of the problem, I don't even have that toggle. You have it on TMobile without doing anything besides popping in the SIM?

Yeah when I put my sim inside it just worked like an iPhone does on a supported carrier. Does your FaceTime and iMessage work? Maybe try removing and re inserting the sim to see if the option pops up.

 

[nostaws]

As your carrier (T-Mobile USA) isn't a supported carrier, they have no way to actually do that.

So, I am on t-mobile, and I do have those options, I have turned them on and I still can't:

1. send group messages
2. consistently receive group messages. I occasionally receive messages from people replying to the group.

A question for those not receiving messages: do you have a data plan or are you phone only and data only when you have wifi?

 

[adamfishercox]

I have a data plan. Here's hoping things get better now that T-Mobile and Apple are official partners

 

[Applejuiced]

So, I am on t-mobile, and I do have those options, I have turned them on and I still can't:

1. send group messages
2. consistently receive group messages. I occasionally receive messages from people replying to the group.

A question for those not receiving messages: do you have a data plan or are you phone only and data only when you have wifi?

MMS and group messages do need carrier data.
If you dont have a data plan then that's why those features are not working.

 

[Minhimalism]

I'm on T-Mobile and I can send and receive group messages just fine.. as can my other friends, and we never had to enable anything.

 

[flexbrah]

I'm on T-Mobile and I can send and receive group messages just fine.. as can my other friends, and we never had to enable anything.

What are your APN settings?

 

[Minhimalism]

What are your APN settings?

The same ones they tell you to do for MMS. When I set this phone up it was already set.. (edit: I take that back I had a backup from my pre-swap iPhone 5 that I had edited the plist on.. but I basically just set things for MMS as anyone else would, not group message.) And MMS and what not all just work. It was glitchy for a day, but now my group message works just fine!

http://support.t-mobile.com/thread/17918?tstart=0