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Someone please suggest an app for sending group SMS's

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Old 18-10-2009, 8:40 AM   #1
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Someone please suggest an app for sending group SMS's

Need an app for sending text messages to preset groups of people. The iPhone is usless for this. I realise you can use the + button to add people but you have to do it every time you want to send a message, and worst of all... the + is right next to the Cancel button! Almost made me launch my iPhone last night, this has to be one of the iPhones biggest flaws. Anyhow, is there anything in the app store to help?
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Old 18-10-2009, 12:45 PM   #2
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Re: Someone please suggest an app for sending group SMS's

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Need an app for sending text messages to preset groups of people. The iPhone is usless for this. I realise you can use the + button to add people but you have to do it every time you want to send a message, and worst of all... the + is right next to the Cancel button! Almost made me launch my iPhone last night, this has to be one of the iPhones biggest flaws. Anyhow, is there anything in the app store to help?

+1 This drives me nuts!
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Old 18-10-2009, 1:38 PM   #3
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Re: Someone please suggest an app for sending group SMS's

Only ones I can find in the store are for those crappy free SMS services. Just a dead simple app that could add groups to the native messages app, nothing fancy.
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Old 19-10-2009, 10:41 AM   #4
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Re: Someone please suggest an app for sending group SMS's

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Only ones I can find in the store are for those crappy free SMS services. Just a dead simple app that could add groups to the native messages app, nothing fancy.
Surely not too much to ask, is it??
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Old 19-10-2009, 3:42 PM   #5
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Re: Someone please suggest an app for sending group SMS's

But once youve made your first message and selected everone you want in that group, the SMS will be saved anyway so just go back into that message again to send another one,

Either way youd have still had to add people to the group anyway, unless it was "to All" but who'd do that cos youd end up sending messages to landlines and allsorts
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Old 19-10-2009, 7:19 PM   #6
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Re: Someone please suggest an app for sending group SMS's

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But once youve made your first message and selected everone you want in that group, the SMS will be saved anyway so just go back into that message again to send another one,

Either way youd have still had to add people to the group anyway, unless it was "to All" but who'd do that cos youd end up sending messages to landlines and allsorts

Yep exactly

Send a message once to all the people you want and from then on you can send new messages to all those people without needing to add them again.

You just need to think differently.
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Old 19-10-2009, 8:50 PM   #7
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Yep exactly

Send a message once to all the people you want and from then on you can send new messages to all those people without needing to add them again.

You just need to think differently.
Thats a cludge, not a solution sorry. Every phone under sun has group management, its a huge shortcoming of the iPhone. Did some googling and it seems a vast amount of people feel the same way. For a start, what if that message gets deleted?
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Re: Someone please suggest an app for sending group SMS's

There is an app on the app store called "Groups", I haven't downloaded it myself but i'm led to believe this is the perfect solution for what you need it for.

Let us know how you get on, and if it does the job.
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Apparently "Groups" is a good app but it doesn't allow for sending group texts so it's not what's needed imo.

Rick

Add me to the list of people missing this function on their iphone - come on Apple it can't be that difficult to do!!!!!
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Old 15-01-2010, 11:20 PM   #10
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add me too...frustrating to say the least.i coach a footy team and need to send 1 text to all the kids parents with kick off/meeting times...just got my iphone a week ago and this seems a glaring omission

cheers , Mike
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Old 06-03-2010, 7:37 PM   #11
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I am in exactly the same situation as sparkrite, any solutions to this yet?
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Old 05-04-2011, 1:56 PM   #12
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Hello you can check this app called "Group Sender", it's an iPhone application that allows you to send an SMS text message to a group of contacts. With this app you can set up a predefined message and a group of contacts of your mobile phone into a Color Buttons. For example you can set up a red Panic Button to send a fast S.O.S. mesage to your people or set up a Green button to send New Year's wishes to your friends and family.
Here is the link in the app Store Group Sender for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store
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Old 05-04-2011, 2:52 PM   #13
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I must admit, I don't really miss the contacts "grouping" for stuff like this, however I can see when it might be useful. But I just wanted to post to say that I agree the "+" next to "cancel" is ridiculous, and the thing I hate the MOST in the iPhone SMS app is the crappy, tiny "Send" button. Is it just me that has to hit it usually at least three times before I get it to send? STUPID BUTTON!
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Old 05-04-2011, 3:20 PM   #14
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I too want the group function, It honestly can't be that difficult to install a selection to 'Group'
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Old 05-04-2011, 9:34 PM   #15
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If you've a jb iPhone, you can get an app called "GroupSend" from Cydia for $1.49
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Old 06-04-2011, 6:53 AM   #16
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just downloaded one called "Group SMS!" (with the ! ) which appears to do be easy and simple to send group messages.
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Old 06-04-2011, 8:22 AM   #17
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There is one called Group Text! which does this.

**Edit**
Change to this....just realised its on iTunes as Group Text SMS and is still free :-
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/group...382627228?mt=8

Last edited by bransoj; 06-04-2011 at 8:29 AM.
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