Confusing Text messages

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I cannot find the info. Let’s say you want to send a text but want to include another person as sending the text. In other words, you want it originating from yourself and someone else. How would you do that? Do you need to clear it with the other person?

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AFAIK you don’t.

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someone sent one to me.

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Interesting, a blue bubble message? Could it have been a forward?

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If this is an iMessage, it could be a group text.
However if this is a standard SMS text, this is not supported in the GSM protocol.

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No, you know what it is? It is just a group chat. But thank you!!!

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So if it is not going to an Apple device, you cannot do it? ( I don’t know what SMS is.)

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Between Apple and Android you can only send regular text. Standard text is technically called SMS (Short Message Service), short because the message is limited to 75 UTF characters, or 150 Latin characters. A longer message is a series of text messages concatenated.

Group text (the one you received), is only supported on iMessage.

I hope that’s helpful.

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Thank you EVER so much!!!

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Otherwise known as Text (message). I think it is a geographical difference North Americans say SMS while Europeans (especially in the UK) say text.

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I’m in multiple group texts that have both iPhone and Android phones in them.

-Eric

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Actually, I tried it last night and was able to reach two Android users in a group text.

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You can have mixed Android and iOS groups but there are some restrictions on them: You can’t use iOS specific features (like, I think, naming them).

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oh ok. you learn something new every day. thanks

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Group texts have some other restrictions as well. If you mix both Apple and Android users, then the message is sent through the phone carrier to everyone (the Apple users do not get an iMessage; green bubbles for everyone). Of course, this means that you don’t get iMessage’s encryption, delivery confirmation, etc.

Also, if I understand correctly, the SMS system doesn’t really have group texting. Instead it’s faked. A separate copy of the message is sent out to each recipient. However, because the message includes a list of all recipients, their replies are also copied to everyone (all phones do a decent job at faking it). The problem is that delivery is entirely carrier dependent and you can occasionally have a situation where one recipient simply never receives a message and you are never notified as the sender.

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