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Sending group text messages and emails from my Contacts app that came w/my phone

(Topic created: 05-16-2025 12:22 PM)
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Galaxy S24
I just sent this feedback and I'm hoping some of y'all and help me figure out how to send group messages when they sing to have done away with the ability to easily send those anymore or at least I can't find how to do it anymore since my phone updated to Android 15. THIS IS WHAT I SENT: 

I am a little bit confused because my Samsung Galaxy S4 FE 5G updated to Android 15 recently and even though Contacts still allows groups to be set in individual contacts, it did away with the 3 vertical bars on the left side that allowed us to easily send text messages and emails to people in our groups. But somehow Android 15 did away with those 3 vertical lines and there is no easy way to send group text messages or emails anymore. I have way too many contacts. I can't even find group settings anymore so I am hoping that you will do something to bring it back so that we can easily see and select group settings so we can easily send group text messages and emails. Please. I just don't understand why you allow groups to be set in individual contacts but did away with the ability to send group messages and emails easily. Thank you very much for your consideration.
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LongHiker
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@twinlesstwin It has moved, that is all.

  1. Open the Contacts app
  2. Scroll down past "My profile" and "Favorites" and you will see Groups above the letter A.
  3. Click on Groups to open it.
  4. Click on the group that you want to send a message to.
  5. Click the 3 dots toward the right side.
  6. Select "Send message" or "Send email"
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I appreciate your reply but I don't see my profile or favorites in either the app or if I find that app under Settings in my smartphone. I have an S24 FE5G and it is a refurbished phone that I have only had since Monday but I have the same problem on the old phone that was only four or five months old. I don't see it under permissions either and in fact, permissions is totally grayed out and can't even be changed. So maybe the difference is because I don't have a 24 Ultra.
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LongHiker
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Here is a screenshot1747429332460.jpg
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I finally found it but it is because I have over 1,600 contacts šŸ˜µā€šŸ’« and so I have a boatload of favorites so it is way way down but I did find it. It doesn't make a lick a sense that they didn't put it at the top but thank you So much for showing me where it is.!!
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realaud
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This is the order of contacts:
-First: you/your profile
-Second: (if applicable) recently added (this group does not show if there are no recently added contacts)
-Third: Favoites
-Fourth: Groups
-Fifth: Everyone else

The groups have always been in that position in the contacts tab in the dialer
They just changed the app to match. They probably should have changed the tab to match the app, since it seems I am the only one who uses the tab instead of the app.
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Before the Android 15 update, my phone used to have 3 vertical lines on the top left side of my Contacts and it was real easy to find the groups there.
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realaud
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If one used the app. In the contacts tab of the dialer, the groups were always between favorites and A
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realaud
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When you open the phone dialer, on the bottom right, next to the recent call log, is the contacts tab. It makes no sense to open a separate app if you are going to dial the phone, and if you are going to send a text, you can get your contacts right in the text app.

 

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realaud
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1600 contacts and a boatload of favorites?  How can so many people be your favorites?  Or is the "boatload" basically your friends and family and all the other contacts business/commercial contacts?

I don't think I have met 1600 people in my entire life, and if I have, certainly not that many that I would have in my address book.

IMO, groups should always be distinctively separate and easy to find - as they were on the slide out tab in the contacts app; or even if they just put it as an item in the dot menu.  To mix it in with the "general population" is just wrong.  Of course, everything cannot be on top, but I think that it may have been better to do the hierarchy thus: groups, favorites, (recently added), everyone else.