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What are you talking about? SMS has groups.

• dmm 6y ago
  To be pedantic MMS has groups, not SMS. A distinction I recently discovered when switching to the pinephone which curreently supports the latter but not the former.
  • samoa42 6y ago
    mms are also often not included in flatrates and riddled with security problems. noone i know uses them.
• samoa42 6y ago
  no. what you have probably mistaken for is send to multiple destinations and reply-all.
• swiley 6y ago
  MMS has groups but imessage and the new android messenger don't use MMS when everyone in the group has the same OS. So when you switch OSes you get kicked out of the group. For some reason there are a number of people on hackernews that are really struggling with this idea and I'm kind of surprised it's so difficult to understand. I thought the last guy I talked to was just particularly dense but maybe I'm failing to communicate it effectively? Maybe it's harder to understand than I thought it was? I'm not sure.
  • furyofantares 6y ago
    My experience with iMessage has been that the group text continues to function as an MMS group if a member switches OS, even if it was an iMessage group beforehand. Or sometimes someone even sends a one-off MMS at a time that they have cellular reception but no data, and the messaging app still seems to know which group text to put it into. So I guess my experience is that you don't get kicked out of the group.