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I receive responses from strangers to a text message I receive.

marc41000 Posted messages 58 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   -  
marc41000 Posted messages 58 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   -

Hello,

I received a text message from a friend (I later found out that he sent it to several people), and I got a response to this message from someone I don't know.

How is that possible?

So if I reply, will it be the same?

Thank you for your opinions.


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    Clarckos Posted messages 10085 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention   941
     

    Hello.

    This can happen with group texts.

    It's a bit like a Whatsapp group, but in your phone's native messaging app.

    What we call a mass text.

    If you send a text in this same group, everyone will see it.

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  2. marc41000 Posted messages 58 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention  
     

    But how to know that the text message we receive is a group text?

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    1. Clarckos Posted messages 10085 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention   941
       

      According to the generations of phones, this is explained right from the first message with a short text at the top.

      Otherwise, several names are displayed at the top of the conversation.

      Furthermore, the mere fact that you receive SMS from your friend, BUT also from strangers whose numbers are shown, all within the same conversation, allows us to deduce that this is a mass SMS.

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    2. Clarckos Posted messages 10085 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention   941
       

      I just understood that it was for an iPhone,

      At Apple, they call it group conversation.

      And to see if that’s really the case, you need to tap on the group icon at the top, and you can see if there are at least 3 participants.

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  3. marc41000 Posted messages 58 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention  
     

    What bothers me in my case is that if I had replied, I wouldn't have liked (without knowing it) for my text message to be seen by the other recipients of the initial text message.

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  4. marc41000 Posted messages 58 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention  
     

    hello

    so there’s no way to know that I'm sending a text to all the recipients of the initial text?

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    1. Clarckos Posted messages 10085 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention   941
       

      You just have to take him aside by opening another SMS and replying to him.

      Because if you stay on the group chat, the message you write will go to everyone.

       

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  6. marc41000 Posted messages 58 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention  
     

    Okay, but how do you know it's a group discussion? Because I see no information anywhere.

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    1. Clarckos Posted messages 10085 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention   941
       

      Response in <4>, which I have already provided.

      If it's a group, the icon is different from that of a single person where you will have either the initials or the name.

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  7. marc41000 Posted messages 58 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention  
     

    Hello

    Actually, I don't have different icons.

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    1. Clarckos Posted messages 10085 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention   941
       

      On the group chat you currently have, when you tap on it, do you see a list of people or just one person?

      Then, when you're in a chat with ONE single person (in another text I mean, okay), tap on their name at the top, and tell me what you see.

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  8. marc41000 Posted messages 58 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention  
     

    in the initial message, I only see the sender's name; if I do the same thing on a reply from someone to the initial message, I get the same thing.

    if I have a conversation with ONLY one person, if I click at the top, their profile opens.

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    1. Clarckos Posted messages 10085 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention   941
       

      We agree that this is an iPhone, and that you are using the device's native messaging app?

      If so:

      Does the group chat header not look like this?

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  9. Radinoz Posted messages 7379 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention   1 172
     

    Hello

    Which iOS is your iPhone running? It seems to me that you can only create groups and see the participants (with a different icon at the top) starting from iOS 15...

    ;)

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  10. marc41000 Posted messages 58 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention  
     

    good evening

    I have iOS 17.2.1

    I use iMessage for SMS

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    1. Radinoz Posted messages 7379 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention   1 172
       

      The information is normally there; you have a group icon at the top of the discussion https://support.apple.com/fr-ch/HT202724

      Does the person who created the group also have an iPhone?

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  11. marc41000 Posted messages 58 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention  
     

    Hello

    I saw that on the Apple website but I don't have that

    No, the sender doesn't have an iPhone

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