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Not receiving texts from person in group text
- Thread starter Dawn M
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iPhone person? They get messed up sometimes. Are you using Google Messages as your texting app or something else?
If you don't know what SMS app you are using it will just be whatever app the manufacturer pre-installed (which is different on different phones).
Group messages might differ because there are 2 types of group message: they can be sent as MMS or SMS (though many apps describe the difference less clearly). If the group chat is sending as MMS that might be different from when you text the person individually as SMS.
I think the difference between MMS and SMS group chats is that as SMS each person receives their own copy, so it doesn't actually work as a group chat. This means it's quite likely that you are using MMS. I've no experience of this because here in the UK SMS have been effectively free for most people for more than a decade while MMS are charged per message (and quite costly), so nobody I know uses MMS for group chats. The fact that iMessage only works properly on iPhones (reverting to SMS/MMS for others, sometimes problematically) and RCS (the "Chat" feature in Google's Messages app) only works on Android means that most group chats here are done using cross-platform third-party apps (WhatsApp, Messenger, Signal, Telegraph and the rest).
Group messages might differ because there are 2 types of group message: they can be sent as MMS or SMS (though many apps describe the difference less clearly). If the group chat is sending as MMS that might be different from when you text the person individually as SMS.
I think the difference between MMS and SMS group chats is that as SMS each person receives their own copy, so it doesn't actually work as a group chat. This means it's quite likely that you are using MMS. I've no experience of this because here in the UK SMS have been effectively free for most people for more than a decade while MMS are charged per message (and quite costly), so nobody I know uses MMS for group chats. The fact that iMessage only works properly on iPhones (reverting to SMS/MMS for others, sometimes problematically) and RCS (the "Chat" feature in Google's Messages app) only works on Android means that most group chats here are done using cross-platform third-party apps (WhatsApp, Messenger, Signal, Telegraph and the rest).
The iPhone user in question has to enable sms in their phones messages settings
Right. They need to turn all message options on - MMS, SMS and group. Apple does not enable them by default (because Apple).
