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Is there anyway to send texts to multiple people...?

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Jun 16, 2009
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WITHOUT having to keep on going in and out of your contacts or typing the first letter of their names or whatever. i wish it would just let me choose a bunch of people from the list and then add them.
 
Wow, is it REALLY that hard to just hit a name, hit the +, hit a name, hit the +, etc.? Remember we never even had THAT as a feature until much later.

Sometimes I wonder if people complain about finding a simpler, more efficient way of walking.

Oh wait, we have the Segway. *sigh*
 
you dont have to go in and out of contacts. just start a message, start typing the first few letters of their name, they pop up, tap their name and then start typing the next persons name. i honestly think this is easier than selecting multiple people from a list. all you people that complain about this shouldn't be allowed to have smartphones
 
waterskier2007 said:
you dont have to go in and out of contacts. just start a message, start typing the first few letters of their name, they pop up, tap their name and then start typing the next persons name. i honestly think this is easier than selecting multiple people from a list. all you people that complain about this shouldn't be allowed to have smartphones
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The iPhone has had this feature for ages now, ever since the my location feature was introduced back in OS 1 I believe.
 
I don't know about you, but I rarely text 15 people at once. 2-4 is probably the most lol and even then it's rare.

If you have so many contacts to text to, might be a good idea to get them to sign up for twitter.
 
MadDog31 said:
Wow, is it REALLY that hard to just hit a name, hit the +, hit a name, hit the +, etc.? Remember we never even had THAT as a feature until much later.

Sometimes I wonder if people complain about finding a simpler, more efficient way of walking.

Oh wait, we have the Segway. *sigh*
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You might have the time to go through 20 contacts hitting the + and adding each one, but a lot of us don't.

I like to send a message at xmas/new year wishing my friends well but I don't want to spend half my night doing it :D

Besides - why should we have to do that when a more elegant method could be added?
 
matttye said:
You might have the time to go through 20 contacts hitting the + and adding each one, but a lot of us don't.

I like to send a message at xmas/new year wishing my friends well but I don't want to spend half my night doing it :D

Besides - why should we have to do that when a more elegant method could be added?
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so u cant spend the time once or twice a yr to send a mass greeting during holidays?

the fact that u feel the need to send 1 cookie cutter msg for the holidays to all your friends should show how much you really "care"

i dont see how it can be so hard to tap in a few letters of a person's name and just tapping and hitting enter when u create a msg.

but i wouldnt know this problem.

I usually take the time to send one msg at a time.

It's more personal.
 
TrunksGoku said:
so u cant spend the time once or twice a yr to send a mass greeting during holidays?

the fact that u feel the need to send 1 cookie cutter msg for the holidays to all your friends should show how much you really "care"

i dont see how it can be so hard to tap in a few letters of a person's name and just tapping and hitting enter when u create a msg.

but i wouldnt know this problem.

I usually take the time to send one msg at a time.

It's more personal.
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There's no need to send a personal message to each friend when you see them around the same time. It's just a little added gesture.

Regardless, why would you want to add each contact one by one when a more elegant way could be implemented? When you click the + button it could open up a multi-select list much like it does when you want to forward/delete emails.
 
matttye said:
You might have the time to go through 20 contacts hitting the + and adding each one, but a lot of us don't.

I like to send a message at xmas/new year wishing my friends well but I don't want to spend half my night doing it :D

Besides - why should we have to do that when a more elegant method could be added?
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apple said they are adding support in 3.0.1 where the iphone will read your mind and text every person who you want to text. it will also wake you up in the morning, make you breakfast, drive you to work, and do your work for you.

</sarcasm>

are you people seriously that lazy. just use the way i said a few posts ago and it couldnt be easier
 
waterskier2007 said:
apple said they are adding support in 3.0.1 where the iphone will read your mind and text every person who you want to text. it will also wake you up in the morning, make you breakfast, drive you to work, and do your work for you.

</sarcasm>

are you people seriously that lazy. just use the way i said a few posts ago and it couldnt be easier
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i want them to do surgery to my brain and add an iBrain chip.
 
waterskier2007 said:
apple said they are adding support in 3.0.1 where the iphone will read your mind and text every person who you want to text. it will also wake you up in the morning, make you breakfast, drive you to work, and do your work for you.

</sarcasm>

are you people seriously that lazy. just use the way i said a few posts ago and it couldnt be easier
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Once again- why would you want to add each contact separately when you could quite easily multi-select them in one swoop?

Why did Apple add copy and paste when you could just retype the text?
Why did Apple add multi-delete/forwarding functions for SMS/email?
Why did Apple allow you to select multiple recipients at all when you could just retype the message?

Answer: because it's intuitive and makes life easier for the user, if only a little bit.
 
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