Please explain to me why I can only add and remove people in a group text if someone in the group is using a non-Apple device. Pretty much making my group texts useless.

Please explain to me why I can neither add nor delete members of a group text if any of them is using a non-Apple device. Seems counterintuitive.

Posted on Jun 16, 2021 1:23 PM

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Posted on Jun 16, 2021 1:29 PM

Because Apple has no control over group messages that have non-iOS devices in them. Those are MMS and are controlled by the carrier. You can only change group members if it is a group iMessage. That is a restriction for MMS/SMS messages.

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Please explain to me why I can only add and remove people in a group text if someone in the group is using a non-Apple device. Pretty much making my group texts useless.

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