@psistarpsiii@tacobelllabs.net
Post #270249
2026-02-08 03:26 UTC
Replies (4)
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@neptune22222@kolektiva.social 2026-02-08 03:32
@psistarpsiii I'm not a boomer but I'm a Luddite, which is often confused for boomer. That said, my phone doesn't receive group texts because it only receives SMS text messages and not MMS messages. The difference is that MMS requires not only an Internet data connection but also it requires the website for downloading MMS messages, which is specific to your provider (such as T-Mobile or Mint Mobile) to be configured in your phone correctly. Images are also MMS messages. Basically, anything requiring more than the 150 SMS character limit, or whatever it is, ends up being an MMS message.
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@skullvalanche@gladtech.social 2026-02-08 03:50
@psistarpsiii Not very helpful suggestion: use signal or some other platform besides sms, if you can get them all set up with it. 😐 I dream of a day I get my whole family to stop using SMS. 🤞
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@secretsloth@mastodon.art 2026-02-08 04:10
@psistarpsiii not an answer, but what models of phone do you have? Are they all Android/iPhones? Are some Samsung vs Motorola vs Pixel? I don't know how group texts work exactly, but you might want to have each person check their text settings. I wonder if they have texts set to delete after, say, they have 100 texts total in their inbox, it would delete whatever tells that text that it's a group text, as it deletes the messages at the start of the thread.
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@Fuzz_Ra@kind.social 2026-02-08 04:15
@psistarpsiii Could it possibly be related to RCS*? A chat that expects to be encrypted could freak out when members drop back to SMS because operator handling is horribly unreliable. * https://www.netmeter.co.uk/news/rcs-messages-what-they-are-how-they-work-and-when-its-better-to-turn-them-off/