Group text, WTF!

[Hate 2 Lose]

How do u tell who sent a group message on an iPhone. I get the messages, but it just has a long list of people in my phone book. I just got one and I know who sent this one (by just the pics) but others I have no clue who sent it.

[efparri]

In the conversation, the sender's name should be above the individual message. Replies in the thread will go to all the individual addressees.

[Hate 2 Lose]

Ya that's what's weird, the name isn't above it alone at all. All I get is a list of everyone. My blackberry would have the name it was from, then below it was all the others.

[Sepurb]

I used to determine by whose name showed up amongst the numbers and if there were several friends I'd just assume who was most likely... I also just asked too, lol.

[XFF]

In the conversation, the sender's name should be above the individual message.

It's not though. For a group message, instead of the sender's name or number, only a list of recipients is displayed. Definitely seems like an oversight not to identify the sender.

[gdart]

I just looked through my message list and all the group messages were sent by the first name in the list. What I want is a way to opt
out of the discussion if I am not really going to be involved. While some are important: "I'm stuck can any of you pick up....?" others are like: "I'm going to Target what do we need?" It's really annoying having your text tone going off repeatedly for something you don't care about.

[XFF]

Your service provider may offer certain opt-out features. The iPhone just displays whatever messages are being pushed to it from the network. It has no way of knowing whether you deem the content of a particular message to be important or not.

[TXLady]

I don't know if it matters how many recipients are on the Group message but absolutely does show who sent what on my phone.