EEK! No support for SMS to multiple contacts!

iPaul · 06-30-2007, 05:55 PM

This needs to be addressed in a future update! As a nightclub promoter and DJ, in addition to Myspace and email, I send out mass SMS texts to my contacts lists at least once or twice a week. There doesn't appear to be a way to select multiple names, unlike every other mobile I've used. This is gonna be a real inconvienence - APPLE, HEED MY CALL!

(Other than that I love this phone more than any other computer, phone or gaget ever!)

wjp09 · 06-30-2007, 05:57 PM

well your lucky I cant even send emails

fletch33 · 06-30-2007, 06:10 PM

i agree completely. i am about to test it through using an email account. that might work as a solution until they get us a fix.

n9ngx · 06-30-2007, 06:39 PM

Originally Posted by iPaul

This needs to be addressed in a future update! As a nightclub promoter and DJ, in addition to Myspace and email, I send out mass SMS texts to my contacts lists at least once or twice a week. There doesn't appear to be a way to select multiple names, unlike every other mobile I've used. This is gonna be a real inconvienence - APPLE, HEED MY CALL!

(Other than that I love this phone more than any other computer, phone or gaget ever!)

All I did was manually select the names, but that is slow. There's a way to do it in Mail on our Macs, so there must be a way to select a group. I just haven't seen it yet.

iPaul · 06-30-2007, 08:23 PM

Originally Posted by n9ngx

All I did was manually select the names, but that is slow. There's a way to do it in Mail on our Macs, so there must be a way to select a group. I just haven't seen it yet.

Are you saying you can select more than one contact for a single message, even manually? I can only select one, and without even c/p functions available, Id have to retype the message each time... or am I missing something?

simplegray · 07-15-2007, 07:13 AM

Originally Posted by iPaul

Are you saying you can select more than one contact for a single message, even manually? I can only select one, and without even c/p functions available, Id have to retype the message each time... or am I missing something?

hey paul, have you figured it out yet? i am like you, a promoter, need mass SMS...

Azteka · 07-15-2007, 07:17 PM

yea, that would be a great update...need to add this fix ASAP!

sphynxdra · 07-15-2007, 08:29 PM

iPaul I believe the people above are talking about adding a e-mail entry with each person's phone e-mail to all of your contacts and sending mass text messages through the mail app. For instance for all your AT&T contacts you'd need a e-mail like this: phonenumber@txt.att.net. I've tried this and it works. It is a pain trying to figure out which mobile service provider all of your contacts have and adding a e-mail to each contact. Also I don't really know what is the maximum number of people you can send a message to through the mail app. However, this is a viable (albeit painful) workaround until they fix this. And there is also the benefit of not having to pay for each individual text message.

Originally Posted by iPaul

Are you saying you can select more than one contact for a single message, even manually? I can only select one, and without even c/p functions available, Id have to retype the message each time... or am I missing something?

laserone · 12-07-2007, 03:00 PM

I agree that the lack of copy/paste is nuts as is the inability to send a text message to more than one person at a time. I tried the phonenumber@txt.att.net thing in email and it didn't work. (I included the 1, maybe that's why.) [Ok, dropping the 1 worked. But replies come in as emails and not sms. Oh well.]

Originally Posted by sphynxdra

iPaul I believe the people above are talking about adding a e-mail entry with each person's phone e-mail to all of your contacts and sending mass text messages through the mail app. For instance for all your AT&T contacts you'd need a e-mail like this: phonenumber@txt.att.net. I've tried this and it works. It is a pain trying to figure out which mobile service provider all of your contacts have and adding a e-mail to each contact. Also I don't really know what is the maximum number of people you can send a message to through the mail app. However, this is a viable (albeit painful) workaround until they fix this. And there is also the benefit of not having to pay for each individual text message.

Lincoln · 12-07-2007, 03:09 PM

I find it funny reading all these threads about copy/paste and SMS.

I don't text at all, so I don't care about what's there and what isn't.

Of course, if I see a URL in a webpage that's really long and isn't hyperlinked, then yeah I would like copy and paste. But other than that, I have no use for it.

I still hope for an update though. Carry on.

- John