Send a Mass Text Message from iPhone
Mar 20, 2012 - 11 Comments
Have an event or statement you want to broadcast to a group of people? Send out a mass text message to multiple recipients easily from the iPhone:
- Open the Messages app and tap the “New” message button
- Tap into the “To” field and enter the first recipient, then tap the (+) plus button and add other recipients from the address book one by one
- Type and send your text message as usual
Mass texting is convenient but the other benefit comes with texting fees, with AT&T at least, a single group text will count as one message rather than individual SMS’s. Of course, receiving replies will count against your standard texting plan as usual though.
Older versions of iOS had to have group texting manually enabled, but it is now activated by default in iOS 5 or later.
It’s a great feature except that then when the recipients reply to the sender saying, “congratulations,” or whatever, everyone gets all the replies. (Unless, of course, if the person who replies really pays attention to what they’re doing)
Is there a limit on the number of people you can send?
Can you send to a group from your Contact Groups?
thanks.
The limit is only in your patience for manually adding every entry, hopefully Apple improves that.
You guys are charged for receiving texts?
Harsh
We’re charged for everything in the USA, such is life in a corporatocracy.
Imagine you have over 20 people you need to include in your message… can’t apple just make life easier by letting you “check” the person you need to include in your group message? I know 3rd party app can!
The max number you can send to is 20……cheers….
well I tried adding more than 10 people but at the end I gave up, back to whatsapp…
U can not text more than 10 people using this method!
AT&T doesn’t allow it.
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Thanks for the tip, I found this searching in google, but what I want to do is set up an iCloud Group and be able to select it and send a text message to that group without having to select each contact individually. is it possible?