Groups in Mail question

[Edbrady]

My contacts appear nicely on my iPhone 5 and sync over iCloud with no problem. This includes Groups I have created. When I use Mail on the phone it does not recognize groups in the address line the way my Mac (Lion) does. In other words, when I type the name of a group in the To line it does not capture the members of that group. Am I doing something wrong or has Apple left this feature out of iOS?.

Thanks,

Ed Brady

 

[Alli]

It is missing from the Mail app in iOS. On the bright side, there are lots of 3rd party apps that can add it back for you, like ContactsXL.

 

[Edbrady]

Thanks for the help. I'll look for an app, but this is disappointing. I thought the idea was to make a seamless experience among all my (many) apple devices both OS and iOS. Maybe Apple really is losing its edge.

 

[contactsxl]

yes the built-in Mail app cannot use groups you created, you can only add contacts from a group but you have to do it one by one. And you have to use 3rd party apps to do that an easier way.