Google Messages: Group Messages not downloading the message and sending as separ

[twinlesstwin]

I got 2 messages from unknown people today with a down arrow in an open box. I blocked both phone #s. Then I got the same icons from 3 friends. I clicked on the 2 down arrows from 1 friend. It immediately opened and showed her as sending a GROUP message that included the 2 people that I had just blocked! I didn't touch the arrows in those 2 that I previously blocked. Even though I blocked them, it obviously did something for me to get messages from 3 friends with the same down arrow in a box. Now I have just gotten another text from another friend in that group of 4 with nothing but the down arrow. So, what did I unleash by clicking on that down arrow in the box? And why would clicking on that down arrow immediately send a message from that friend when it could have been sent without the message not being able to be sent unless I clicked on the down arrow? To me, it had to have at unleashed something when I clicked on the down arrow????? Does anyone know what's going on? I tried doing a search on the internet but I couldn't find that down arrow in an open box anywhere.

By the way, when I get a message with the down arrow in the box, all the message says is "Not available."

I have a 4-year-old Samsung Galaxy S20 FE 5G.

[ImRyan]

Well I had issues with my phone yesterday and so did some of my friends and 1 looked on the internet and there was a hacking yesterday and I had some weird issues as well. It's all carriers

[realaud]

That's the download icon to download a MMS message.  It happens sometimes when the MMS doesn't auto download.  It may not have been anything you did.  It may be a carrier issue.

[userBQUDePq9Bb]

Settings and Advanced Phone number Unknown on my Samsung Galaxy A15 5G At&t for some time now I've been complaining and trouble shooting nothin helps and this is a big issues on many devices

[twinlesstwin]

I also have phone number unknown on my Google messaging app. And that bothers me a lot.

[meself]

There's a setting to auto download mms or if you want can tap the icons to download

[OzzBad]

Like realaud said above, it means the messages you received in that group just didn't quite make all the way to your device. Sometimes a carrier issue, sometimes you just in a good cell signal area. You'll probably get the whole group in the middle of the night, if you haven't already. 😂

[DanG92263]

Depending on your settings, Google Messages will only download RCS message automatically using your mobile data plan that are 100MBs or less.

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