Anyone get this? There's 9-10 people in this group TXT I'm a part of, and sometimes it will branch off into a new thread for no reason. Like all of a sudden there'll be 4-5 threads with pieces of the conversation split up between them. No one seems to know why. The only solution seems to be to delete the new threads and just hope for the best. But it keeps happening.
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Why do group texts randomly split off into new threads
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Cycle61
What the shit is this...
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conflict btw iMessage and MMS?
yes
But why sometimes and not all the time? I mean we post almost 100 messages a day in this thread, but it only happens once every couple days.
Cookie Monster
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Why not just use Whatsapp? It's actually designed to handle huge groups and conversations...
stangmx13
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one person switching from an iPhone to not-iPhone and keeping the old chats will cause this. everyone in the group chat must delete it to have any chance of keeping the chat as an SMS instead of iMsg. but itll usually keep happening for up to a year until iMsg forgets that person ever had an iPhone.
AbsolutEnduser
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Must be something in your computer. Because that never happens to me on Skype.
(well, unless of course it's Microsoft's "Deciding that I'm gonna freeze" daily moment)
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alien
I agree, but some of these people are resistant to change
100 texts per day and on barf
The Chinese are eating our lunch.
Said by a dude with 18K posts compared to my 16K
Climber
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This.
It seems like it could also happen, with the addition of the ability to remove yourself from a conversation, what happens if other people's phones don't get the memo (have older phone/upgrades) or somebody goes back to an earlier group conversation to send out messages, confusing the whole conversation.
There are quite a few ways for these group conversations to break down, depending how they are tracked at the server.
I've built systems that interact with multiple entities and there are so many possible permutations on what people do that you can't account for all of them.
Yakoo752
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and carrier differentiation.
Yakoo752
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I prefer to minimize as many touch points to my conversations as possible. This helps decrease breaches.
They claim they've been using the same phones.
I'm looking at this one guy's iPhone, and in the Settings menu for Messages, there's a checkbox for "Send as SMS when iMessage is unavailable". And there's another checkbox for MMS too. Should both of those be checked?
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alien
Iphones behave really weird sometimes when texting.
Ive had people text me and ask why I didn't reply. I'll ask in front of me to text my number and show nothing being received on my end.
Then the next morning after having my phone off and charging overnight all the unrecieved text will show up next day.
Ive had people text me and ask why I didn't reply. I'll ask in front of me to text my number and show nothing being received on my end.
Then the next morning after having my phone off and charging overnight all the unrecieved text will show up next day.
even if it's checked, sometimes it doesn't matter.
stangmx13
not Stan
Every iPhone user on the planet should have "Send as SMS/MMS when iMsg is unavailable" enabled, unless they are out of the country or something.