iPhone won’t send messages to groups involving Android

Buy a man phone.

iPhone doesn't do this well. And trust me, the Android user will get blamed for it.

My advice is to use GroupMe or WhatsApp for group messages.

Annoying as hell and something that started happening in the last couple of months. I have multiple group messages for work, they're fairly critical and the main line of com since COVID. I've had to split a few into iPhone people and Android people. Makes it painful to keep everyone on the same sheet of music.

I also hit airplane mode or restart to get the message to send.

One day, in a moment of sheer frustration, I kept sending the group message again and again...and after the fourth attempt, it went through successfully. Now, each time I send a group message involving Android, it consistently goes through on the fourth attempt. Definitely not a fix, but I'm curious if this "method" is working for anyone else...

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And trust me, the Android user will get blamed for it.

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Happens often in a small group text I'm part of. 2 of us have iPhones, the other guy has an Android. He will reply to us, then a few minutes later send something else, and the second one comes through first. We all took screenshots and sent them, and all three phones they came in different order. The replies between the iPhones were sequential, but the replies back from the Android were different on all three. Obviously his showed the order he sent, but on mine they were flipped, and the other guy had them in the right order but some of my replies were in there differently as well.

It also messes with the messages on my Apple Watch. Even though I have read them on there, it will end up showing a half dozen unread messages, and I have to click in and out of the message a few times to clear it out. No idea why there isn't a standard among the two by now. Also the emojis will come through weird. One of us will send a thumbs up or something else and it looks different, or is a different emoji altogether.

I think that's because Android sucks.

Good. Maybe Apple will push others to buy into better standards so that everyone is using something better than SMS, which is antiquated and not encrypted.

It legit bums me out when I text someone and it turns green instead of blue.

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Turn your Wi-Fi off... your phone is trying to send that iMessage and you need to just send a text message.

I’ve had this issue also, especially when sending picture messages.

Turn off the Wi-Fi and sending via the cell tower always works, so my iPhone can send texts to android users.

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Except an iPhone will send iMessages through cell towers too. I’m not sure what turning off wifi will accomplish as the iPhone immediately recognizes another iPhone before sending by having a blue or green “send” arrow.

I’ve tried various things to fix this issue, and all are inconsistent. WiFi Off, Airplane Mode On/Off, Restarting, SMS on/off, etc.

It’s very frustrating.

Turn off MMS messaging.