Add and remove people in group text messages on your iPhone, iPad or iPod bear upon

Observe out how to add together and remove people in group text messages on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch.

  • With iMessage – an Apple characteristic – you lot tin add someone to a grouping text message as long as there are three or more people in the group and everyone in the group is using an Apple device, such as an iPhone, iPad or iPod impact. To remove someone from a group text message, there take to be four or more people in the group and everyone must be using an Apple device.
  • Y'all can't add or remove people in group SMS/MMS messages, and yous tin't add together or remove someone if they're using a non-Apple device. Find out the divergence betwixt iMessage and SMS/MMS messages.

iPhone showing how to add someone to a group text message.

How to add together someone to a grouping text message

  1. Tap the group message you want to add someone to.
  2. Tap the grouping icons at the peak of the thread.
  3. Tap the grey arrow icon to the right of the contacts, then tap Add Contact.
  4. Type the contact y'all want to add, then tap Washed.

If you desire to add someone to a group message – but they're using a non-Apple device – yous'll accept to create a new group SMS/MMS message, because they can't be added to a group message using iMessage. You can't add together someone to a Messages conversation that y'all're already having with just one other person.

iPhone showing how to remove someone from a group text message.

How to remove someone from a grouping text message

  1. Tap the group message that has the contact yous want to remove.
  2. Tap the group icons at the elevation of the thread.
  3. Tap the grayness arrow icon to the right of the contacts, and then swipe left over the proper name of the person you lot want to remove.
  4. Tap Remove, then tap Done.

You tin but remove someone from a group if it has 4 or more people in it and everyone in the group is using an Apple device, such as an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch.

Want to remove yourself from a group text message? Find out how to mute the notifications from a group text or leave the conversation in the Letters app.

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