Not receiving texts from person in group text

[Dawn M]

2 times now I have been part of different group text messages. I am able to see everyone's reply in the tread except for one person, and it is the same person in each thread. One on one, I am able to text message this person and get their reply. I have an LG Stylo 6

 

[Clementine_3]

iPhone person? They get messed up sometimes. Are you using Google Messages as your texting app or something else?

 

[Dawn M]

They do have an IPhone although several others in the thread have an Iphone as well and I could see their texts. I believe I just have SMS messages...green box with white conversation bubble in it

 

[Hadron]

If you don't know what SMS app you are using it will just be whatever app the manufacturer pre-installed (which is different on different phones).

Group messages might differ because there are 2 types of group message: they can be sent as MMS or SMS (though many apps describe the difference less clearly). If the group chat is sending as MMS that might be different from when you text the person individually as SMS.

I think the difference between MMS and SMS group chats is that as SMS each person receives their own copy, so it doesn't actually work as a group chat. This means it's quite likely that you are using MMS. I've no experience of this because here in the UK SMS have been effectively free for most people for more than a decade while MMS are charged per message (and quite costly), so nobody I know uses MMS for group chats. The fact that iMessage only works properly on iPhones (reverting to SMS/MMS for others, sometimes problematically) and RCS (the "Chat" feature in Google's Messages app) only works on Android means that most group chats here are done using cross-platform third-party apps (WhatsApp, Messenger, Signal, Telegraph and the rest).

 

[Dannydet]

The iPhone user in question has to enable sms in their phones messages settings

 

[Clementine_3]

The iPhone user in question has to enable sms in their phones messages settings

Right. They need to turn all message options on - MMS, SMS and group. Apple does not enable them by default (because Apple).

 

[Dawn M]

I did a screenshot of the settings page and texted to this person said they changed settings...still and not getting their responses in group texts