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Group Texts Separating into Different Groups

(Topic created: 08-28-2024 04:31 AM)
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userIF93Ok7Rlx
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Hi, recently my Google Messages group messages started to separate into different group texts with the same person, depending on who was responding. I checked the setting and didn't find anything.

I tried the Samsung Messages app and the same thing happened. I cleared cache, same thing. I reinstalled Google Messages, and the same thing happens.

Checked the phone (A32) settings and am not seeing anything that would cause this. I DO see the setting that would turn on/off individual replies. It's set to group messaging, of course.

Any thoughts? Thank you!

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Gucci4
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I woke up to a group mass text that was from someone else. I do not know how to fix it.
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realaud
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If you don't know anyone in the group, it's possible the creator of the group entered a number incorrectly, and it happened to be yours. If it was from an unknown in a group you had started, is it possible a participant in the group added someone else? If it's a group completely unknown to you, you can just block it.  If someone added an additional person, I don't believe there is a way to remove that person from the chat.  You can try to find out who added them and why.

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userIF93Ok7Rlx
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No, it's all people I know.
I had recently changed my number, so they pulled out my old one and input my new one. But I don't think that this would make it where I'm getting multiple streams of the same people texting each other and me.

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realaud
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That previous comment was meant for the other person who asked a question in this post.  I'm sorry, I shouldn't have answered it here, but since it wasn't entirely off topic, I did.

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realaud
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Is it possible that someone or multiple someones started a splinter group(s) to exclude someone else but kept you in it?

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userIF93Ok7Rlx
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Every time someone replies, it starts a new group text with their reply, and the top of it says "[replier name] created this group MMS with you and 13 others"

Each says this.

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realaud
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The only thing I can suggest is for you to delete the group chat and ask all the participants to do the same and then start over.  I would hope that maybe it's just general chit chat and not anything important that needs to be saved. If it is something that needs to be saved, get an SMS backup app from the Play store and back up that group chat first.

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realaud
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Is it happening to the others in the group as well, or just you?

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