Apple insulates us from most of the peculiarities of the cellular earth ’s text message arrangement , SMS ( Short Messaging Service ) , and the multimedia adaptation , MMS . If everyone you text with use an iPhone , iPad , Mac , or Apple Watch , you see skillful blue bubbles and it ’s all handled within Apple ’s iMessage system .
Even if you ’re using SMS or MMS — where messages look in unripened — Apple still hides the complexity , packaging it within the Messages app on various platform . But you might be perplexed in one specific case , as one lector was : they expend chemical group messaging without all Apple ecosystem participants and every response come back as an individual message — the group is n’t receiving replies as a whole !
It turns out it ’s related to that plaguy wiring behind the scene . To use group electronic messaging without iMessage , you rely on a feature film in MMS . But if the feature of speech is n’t enabled or your carrier does n’t tolerate it , you ’ll see individual responses to all group messages sent .
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To enable it if it ’s usable , go toSettings > Messagesand enableMMS MessagingandGroup Messaging . If neither alternative is available , adjoin your toter .
This Mac 911 article is in response to a dubiousness submitted by Macworld reader Peggy .
For more assist with iMessage problems record : Is iMessage not ferment ? Here ’s how to fix it on your iPhone , iPad , and Mac
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