Add together and remove people in grouping text letters on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch

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

  • With iMessage – an Apple tree feature – you tin add together someone to a group text message equally long as there are three or more people in the group and everyone in the group is using an Apple device, such every bit an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. To remove someone from a group text bulletin, there accept to be 4 or more people in the group and anybody must be using an Apple tree device.
  • You tin't add or remove people in grouping SMS/MMS messages, and you tin't add or remove someone if they're using a non-Apple tree device. Find out the difference between iMessage and SMS/MMS messages.

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

How to add someone to a grouping text message

  1. Tap the group message you want to add someone to.
  2. Tap the group icons at the top of the thread.
  3. Tap the grey arrow icon to the right of the contacts, and so tap Add Contact.
  4. Type the contact you want to add, then tap Done.

If you want to add together someone to a grouping message – but they're using a non-Apple device – you'll have to create a new group SMS/MMS message, considering they tin can't exist added to a group bulletin using iMessage. Yous can't add someone to a Letters chat that you'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 group text message

  1. Tap the group bulletin that has the contact you desire to remove.
  2. Tap the group icons at the peak of the thread.
  3. Tap the grey arrow icon to the right of the contacts, then swipe left over the name of the person you desire to remove.
  4. Tap Remove, then tap Washed.

You tin can only remove someone from a group if information technology has four or more than people in it and everyone in the group is using an Apple device, such as an iPhone, iPad or iPod affect.

Want to remove yourself from a group text message? Observe out how to mute the notifications from a group text or get out the chat in the Messages app.

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