Messages question for those using iOS 14 Beta

[Achiever]

I am part of a community group which is over 35 people in size and communicates frequently via text message. A number of the members are Android users, so the group messages go out as SMS messages. Unfortunately, in iOS 13 and prior, there is apparently a group size limit of 20 for SMS groups, which means we have to have multiple threads going at once to keep everyone on the same page. Can anyone tell me if that group size limit has been increased on iOS 14? I know there are third-party apps which can handle much larger group sizes, but given the technical limitations of a number of people in this group, we would like to keep things to the stock apps, if possible.

If this issue is just a setting on the phone which I can adjust and haven't discovered, please feel free to let me know. Thanks in advance.

 

[Project Alice]

I am part of a community group which is over 35 people in size and communicates frequently via text message. A number of the members are Android users, so the group messages go out as SMS messages. Unfortunately, in iOS 13 and prior, there is apparently a group size limit of 20 for SMS groups, which means we have to have multiple threads going at once to keep everyone on the same page. Can anyone tell me if that group size limit has been increased on iOS 14? I know there are third-party apps which can handle much larger group sizes, but given the technical limitations of a number of people in this group, we would like to keep things to the stock apps, if possible.

If this issue is just a setting on the phone which I can adjust and haven't discovered, please feel free to let me know. Thanks in advance.

This has to do with the way SMS and MMS works, not iOS. It’s limited to 25 people per group text, 20 on verizon.

My suggestion is to get everyone on Messenger or a similar app. I have been in a messenger group of over 100 people and it works fine. You also do not need to have a Facebook account to use messenger.

 

[bricktop_at]

Signal might also be an idea to use

 

[Achiever]

This has to do with the way SMS and MMS works, not iOS. It’s limited to 25 people per group text, 20 on verizon.

My suggestion is to get everyone on Messenger or a similar app. I have been in a messenger group of over 100 people and it works fine. You also do not need to have a Facebook account to use messenger.

Signal might also be an idea to use

Thanks for the third-party suggestions, but we need to stay with stock apps as too many non-techies in the group who would not be able to set up and maintain another messaging app. It would appear as though we are stuck with multiple threads at this time.