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hey kurt here with teach mom how today
we're going to teach mom how to create
and name a group text on an iphone this
is the 2021 version so it's up to date
let's get started
all right if you want to learn how to
create and rename
and send group text using your iphone or
using imessages
this video is going to show you exactly
how to do that now even though this is a
very simple task make sure you watch all
the way till the end
because imessages or group texting on
iphones
does not work on every phone and so if
you've ever done what i'm about to show
you or if you do it and it doesn't work
how i show in the video
there's a reason i'll explain why it
happens and how to fix it
at the end so make sure you watch the
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make it as simple as possible by
breaking it up into steps
and i give you the option to skip ahead
or go back and re-see
something that you might have missed so
if you go down to the description
you'll see some blue hyperlinks with
numbers those are chapters
you can click on the chapter and skip
ahead or go back to the part you wish to
or just continue to watch the entire
video so now we're going to
create our group text in imessages so
you've got to come into message
the messages app which you probably
already know this but it's this green
icon in the bottom right corner
click on that and then you've got all
your text messages that you've received
recently
top right corner you click on that new
on this top line where it says two
that's
where you're going to add all the people
you want to be in this group
so click the plus and select the names
of the people you choose to send the
messages to
okay i'm going to send one to a guy
named carlos
and ernest
now all i need to do is send a message
to them
and that will create the group if i go
back to my messages you'll see i now
have this group for carlos and cameron
with imessages on an iphone i'm allowed
to have a group of up to 25 people
but i can also have a group like this
one that's just two people i'm only
going to show you two people but you can
add as many people as you want to that
group
by simply clicking on the thread
going to the names that are in there
clicking info
and then push add contact i can now add
another person to this thread if i
choose to
then click done okay so i now have three
people in this group
we can leave it like that but if we want
to name the group so we can find it
easily and know what this text thread is
for
we simply click on the names of the
group
click on info and then at the top is
there's that blue hyperlink that says
change name
and photo click that change name
and you can choose a photo if you'd like
or you can add one from your phone okay
name the group whatever you choose to
name it
i'll call it friend test since this is
just a video for the sake of showing how
to use it
i click done and now i have a text group
called friend test you can name it
whatever you want and you can add
whatever picture you want
now let me show you a couple of things
that can potentially go wrong when you
set up a group
text message on on an iphone okay
so i'm going to create one with my wife
and i'm going to create one with carlos
again
i'm going to send them a test okay it
sent the message
and then if i click here and i click
info
you'll notice that i cannot change the
name there's no option to change the
name or add a photo
the reason that that doesn't work is
because my wife has an
android phone androids don't use
imessage which is what this app is
so you can see carlos is responding to
this test i said
so if you ever try to create a group and
it doesn't function quite properly
chances are it means you have at least
one person on there that's using
an android okay and that's going to
create some problems another problem
that creates unfortunately i don't want
an example to show you
but how i can see my text right in this
thread
and and i can see carlos's responses
sometimes if someone responds from an
android it doesn't show up in the same
thread it
creates another thread and it gets
confusing and especially if you're
chatting back and forth with a group
and you've gone back and forth a few
times it gets confusing to know
who said what what they're talking about
stuff like that where if everybody has
iphones it all shows up right here in
one thread and it's nice and clean
so what do you do if you have to have a
group chat and not everybody has an
iphone
well you pressure them to death to get
an iphone
no i'm kidding what you do is you use a
different app there's a couple apps i
recommend
one is called group me i'll show you
that quickly
i'm not going to do anything in it other
than show you what it looks like but
this is group
me you can make huge groups of multiple
people
and they can all download this app and
you can chat back and forth regardless
of what kind of phone they have
and then there's another one i like to
use called voxer it looks like this
it's a walkie-talkie app where you can
create groups just like group me but you
can talk to people like a walkie-talkie
where you just hold down the button
and send them a voice memo or a voice
message and you can chat
back and forth that way so those are my
two recommendations if you need to send
group chats to groups that
include phones that are not iphones
that's it i've shown you how to create
and name a group text on an iphone i've
shown you how to add a photo to that
group if you'd like
and i've given you some options to deal
with the dreaded android problem
that all of us iphone users hate when we
try to send group messages
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