Be Wary of Group Messaging in iOS 5 If You Don't Want to Reply All

Apple has touted its group messaging feature as a handy way to communicate with multiple people at once, but blogger Cory Watilo points out one of the flaws in its system: not everyone realizes they're replying to everyone in the thread.

The problem comes up if you don't have group messaging available, or if someone in the group doesn't have an iPhone. Here's Cory's take:


It's certainly a handy feature when you're talking with multiple people and they know what's going on, but we've seen our fair share of accidental reply all texts since iOS 5 was released. If everyone is on an iPhone with iOS 5 installed it's pretty clear what's happening, but if you're not, you might not be aware your message is going out to everyone on the list. For now, the lesson is to be careful when replying to obvious mass text messages, because as he notes, disabling group messaging doesn't appear to disable the reply all function.

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