EEK! No support for SMS to multiple contacts! - iPhone 3G

iPaul · 06-30-2007, 09:55 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, 09:57 PM

well your lucky I cant even send emails

fletch33 · 06-30-2007, 10:10 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, 10:39 PM

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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 · 07-01-2007, 12:23 AM

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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, 11:13 AM

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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, 11:17 PM

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

sphynxdra · 07-16-2007, 12:29 AM

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.

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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, 07:00 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.]

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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, 07:09 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