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Opt out of a group text

Hi, are there any messaging apps that will allow you to opt out of a group text?

Surely it's up to the 'sending' side to not send you the text? As they are the ones who define the 'group'. Any app on the receiving side would just, as you say is fine, not tell you you have a text or block the contact that was sending the texts.

Dave
 
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Hi, are there any messaging apps that will allow you to opt out of a group text?

If the way they are sending is based on the recipient list that they themselves receive, when they reply to the group, they are probably replying to the entire recipient list. What you can do is reply to the group text asking that the group remove you from it.

It would be dependent on the application. In WhatsApp, the person who defines the group has control regarding who is in the group. As a recipient, you cannot remove yourself from the group because you did not define it.

With Hangouts, anyone can remove themselves from a group. Groups aren't owned by the creator. In Hangouts, a friend of mine had a different issue. He wants to remove someone (other than himself) from the group, but cannot. He would have to create a new group without the people he wants removed. Hangouts just manages groups differently.

Which messaging app/system are you using where you want to remove yourself from a group message thread?
 
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