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Aditya_S

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Jan 25, 2016
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It's not a major problem but I'm using iOS 10 PB 7 and I'm in a group chat with the rest being on iOS 9 except one iPhone 4 user on iOS 7. Whenever the iPhone 4 user texts, I don't see his texts on the main group chat, theyre just sent as a new group chat. Why is this happening if they're just normal texts and I'm not even using the new iMessage features?
 

C DM

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Oct 17, 2011
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It's not a major problem but I'm using iOS 10 PB 7 and I'm in a group chat with the rest being on iOS 9 except one iPhone 4 user on iOS 7. Whenever the iPhone 4 user texts, I don't see his texts on the main group chat, theyre just sent as a new group chat. Why is this happening if they're just normal texts and I'm not even using the new iMessage features?
Perhaps something about the way that user sends messages? Some setting they don't have enabled or something else like that?
 

PurrBall

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Oct 25, 2007
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The iPhone 4 user needs to enable MMS support, this is a requirement for SMS chats to group together (iMessage can do it just fine)
 

Hermes Monster

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May 4, 2010
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Perhaps it's to do with the user sending the original or subsequent messages from a different number or e-mail attached to iMessage? This has happened before with me, where someone has started a chat on their iPad using their email and then responds from their phone using their phone number
 

Bladery

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Apr 12, 2015
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iMessage is so buggy anyway!
We tried to have a group chat via iMessage but when one participant texted something, suddenly iMessage created a new group for just this message!

Besides, it often doesn't show "Delivered" even it was.
 

DaveOP

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May 29, 2011
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iMessage is so buggy anyway!
We tried to have a group chat via iMessage but when one participant texted something, suddenly iMessage created a new group for just this message!

Besides, it often doesn't show "Delivered" even it was.

Group iMessage never shows delivery notifications.
 
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