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How does WP handle iOS group messages?

malman89

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Just wondering how effectively WP's messaging handles iOS group messages. I get a lot and how my Android phone handles them is frustrating, difficult to follow, and annoying. Is WP any better?
 

xandros9

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I had a conversation last year on WP8.0 with three other iPhone users. (all 5's actually)
No issues.
I don't expect 8.1 to act any differently.

How is your Android a pain? WP treats it like any other conversation, multiple people instead of one name displayed, incoming texts are the same except with the sender's name added in a sort of subscript next to the date.

You can mute threads too.
 

rdubmu

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I believe some verizon phones don't do group messaging. All AT&T phones work flawlessly with group messaging
 

berty6294

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All Verizon phones do as well. You have the option to turn it on or off. rdubmu is thinking of a year span where Verizon did not allow it on WP8 devices but has since allowed it on every device.

Basically you have the option to receive them in a single thread of many people or from each person individually. The choice is yours.
 

AR2186

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Just wondering how effectively WP's messaging handles iOS group messages. I get a lot and how my Android phone handles them is frustrating, difficult to follow, and annoying. Is WP any better?

My family has iPhones of different vintages, no problems with group messages on my Icon. Should be fine
 

malman89

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I had a conversation last year on WP8.0 with three other iPhone users. (all 5's actually)
No issues.
I don't expect 8.1 to act any differently.

How is your Android a pain? WP treats it like any other conversation, multiple people instead of one name displayed, incoming texts are the same except with the sender's name added in a sort of subscript next to the date.

You can mute threads too.

Sorry, guess I didn't realize some phones display things differently. I would get a text message from "Chris" and think it was just a normal text... until 10 other people start replying to it in individual messages. Each one I can reply all to and send back to the chain. I recently installed Handcent and they have a plugin that finally groups them by a thread.