Create a contact that has 8 people in it to make group texting easier?

KillerQ

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Hey, All....

Ok, I know this shouldn't be this difficult, but it's driving me crazy.

If there is a boss who wants to have 8 employees part of a group text, is there a way to have a WORK GROUP contact that contains all 8 Employee's names so that all the boss has to do is create a new iMessage and click on the WORK GROUP contact to populate the "to:" field with the phone numbers of all 8 people?

I know this can be done manually and he can just keep revisiting the previous group text, but there should be a way to make a contact/group with multiple numbers in it to make this more streamline.

Thanks in advance.
 

Tartarus

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It's actually as simple as creating a contact and saving all your employees numbers under it.

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And if you tap on the prefixes before the numbers you can give those numbers the names of the individual employees.

However, if you ever get a phone call from one of them, you will see the actual contact name and the work group name appearing like 'John Doe or Work Group calling'.
 

kurpaige

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Wouldn't this just ask you to pick on of the number to text and not actually send it to all of those numbers?
 

rdstryr

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I think this "boss" would just be stuck with entering all the employees into a text 1 by 1. Then the next time they can just type one of the names in the "to" section and the group of people should come up as a suggestion. Also if they don't want to have to create a new thread every time they could just leave it in there messages app and rename it "Work Group" by pressing the little i in top right corner.
 

KillerQ

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I think this "boss" would just be stuck with entering all the employees into a text 1 by 1. Then the next time they can just type one of the names in the "to" section and the group of people should come up as a suggestion. Also if they don't want to have to create a new thread every time they could just leave it in there messages app and rename it "Work Group" by pressing the little i in top right corner.

Yea, this was the first conclusion that I can't. It's strange that there are not other ways to do this in this day and age.

Thanks.
 

doogald

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I never do this myself, but there is an app in the App Store called Group Text+ that looks like it could do just this.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gro...apple.com/us/app/group-text+/id928002510?mt=8
 

jrdatrackstar1223

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You can, you just have to do it from iCloud unfortunately (on a PC, or perhaps from your phone requesting the desktop site). Either way, can't be done with just the phone and stock OS without either an app or iCloud.
 

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Why not just create a new message and then just attach the 8 people in it? You only have to do this once and then they can just go to the thread in iMessage from then on. Kind of this is understood to a bit more difficult then it really is. Put the work in once and then you won't have to worry about the contacts showing all funny during any call. Just a thought.
 

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