Comments on: iPhone 3G – Send a text message to multiple people

By: Audrey

Audrey — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 18:55:51 +0000

I am astonished with Apple. Honestly, how is it you have created so many other applications and setting for a phone that you forgot to give the 3GS phone the ability to create contact groups? My $20 phone before I bought this IPhone had the ability to do this! And pretty much every phone before that had the ability to do it! As I can see, also, a lot of other people are very upset about the same situation. Do you plan to fix this with a new software update so you don’t have so many angry customers? Or are you just going to make everyone spend another couple hundred dollars in order to do basic things?!

By: nishant

nishant — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 21:15:57 +0000

hi friends,
I am sorry if i am posting this topic once again.
I am facing a problem while messaging. i want to send sms to many ppl, but it takes a lot of time as i have to add each contact by using the + sign all over again for each contact.i did try a few softwares like ycontacts abcontacts..etc………but evrythin is a fail……………
can any one help me with a software through which i can create a group and send a message with just one click ………… some thing similar to nokia phones…..kindly give me reviews………..

By: Anthony

Anthony — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 05:36:22 +0000

I have the iPhone 3gs

this phone is a big disappointment !!!
I Had Verizon service with a blackberry curve

I regret leaving Verizon/blackberry
the AT&T service with my iPhone is fucking terrible !!

Why why why can’t you with a iPhone
create groups with unlimited contactes
within them ??
Why can’t you create groups from the phone
opposed from your computer ??
Why can’t this piece of shit phone
send mass texts
the only good thing about the iPhone
is all the free games !!
Steve jobs is a fucking asshole

By: Stallionette

Stallionette — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 06:33:24 +0000

There is another option which includes the previous discussions of going back to the same message originally sent to the max number of 9.
You are able to forward to more than that.

In essence, if you have 20 people you would like to send a mass text out

1. Create a text out to the first 9
2. Edit that text sent and forward it to the remainder 11

3. In the future if you have another text that needs to be sent to the same 20
4. Pull up the first text and continue onto the conversation

It’s not anything like the Blackberry which does offer this function; however, until the IPhone 4 is out, this is what will need to be done.

I hope this helps.

By: Cindy Foxheart

Cindy Foxheart — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 20:26:19 +0000

I love the way that I can veiw all text sent/received by a person on one screen..LOVE it. But when someone sends me a text if they have cc’d other people (ie: so I know I don’t need to fwd a pic to someone) I can’t easily see that. Is there a way to see that info?

By: humayun

humayun — Mon, 31 May 2010 12:59:00 +0000

yo baby yo
humayun got some good news for ya all
how to send txt msgs to all your friends
for this u have to make a group in sms
in order to that type any thing in new sms window
add muliple contacts by the +sign for example u add almost 15 people
n send to them
now one your friend send u a funny txt n u want to forward it to all your friends in that particular group so just copy it and paste it in that group sms window which we have previously made thats all
it will act like u r sending msgs to groups
what say huh???
discovered by me
thanks
dhk….

By: Mazhar

Mazhar — Sat, 15 May 2010 11:01:59 +0000

I am disapponted to learn that iphone 3GS does not have the facility to creat group address out of the phone contacts to send multple message. You have to add contacts one by one which is combersome and irritating. Is there an updated software which can creat group address in iphone 3 GS ???
I shall appreciate your help.

By: Robert Willows

Robert Willows — Sun, 02 May 2010 23:40:59 +0000

Once an sms message is sent to multiple recipients (as per advice above). You can send to the same “group” again by selecting the sent message and simply type in a new one as part of that conversation.

Its still not ideal but it works.

Surely you should be able to select a group from the address book and send sms to all contacts in that group!

By: Suzy M

Suzy M — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 02:50:31 +0000

Thanks Force10x for the tip….I’ve tried it and am happy to say it works!

By: Andy Rubin

Andy Rubin — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 05:15:48 +0000

Still searching for the perfect solution, however this is what I know thus far (after hours of googling and researching).

1. There are apps that are now just comming out that can group text. However they do not do so from your contact list, rather they create their own groups (annoying) then there is TextRally (as of today, March 23rd they are still not in the app store but getting close.) They claim to be able to do what we’re looking to do, only down side is that it’s still “group texting” instead of just you sending out individual texts to many people at once.

2. Other phones can do this. I was using a Windows Mobile phone till a month ago and you can simply build a group just by having many numbers in a row and copy and past it into the TO: on the text and boom they are fired off to all the people you want, no limit! they people simply reply and it’s one on one from there out. Perfect. I really miss my Windows Mobile phone and it’s abilities that iPhone is still eons behind. iPhone is much nicer look and smoother operation, but much more limiting and not as powerful. I guess only time will tell and Apple’s ability to deliver or become obsolete.