Weird group text message behavoir

[Merkyworks]

I noticed this today when sending out a group message to 3 people. person #1 & #2 responded and the message went to the individual conversation if have been having with them while #3 stayed in the group text message and then displayed a little contact photo by the response. All 3 people us Android OS and I am the only one on iOS.

Has anyone else noticed this or get the contact photo by the message response?

 

[C DM]

Contact photos are used in group messages in iOS 7.

As to why some responses were to the group and some were individual, that might depend on how the people who responded went about it--perhaps they specifically did it individually vs. to the group (or vice versa).

 

[Merkyworks]

The contact pic makes since that way then, they use Android so I'm not sure how they respond. maybe they have an option for reply/replay all like an email and that's the reason for the weird behavior.