Why does my S7 Edge (AT&T) receive Group Texts as all separate texts?

[Android Central Question]

my wife's phone (plain S7) does this to. for example, this past week a friend had a group text with 10 people planning a social event. both my wife and i receive most everyone's replies separately, instead of ALL in the same group text. sometimes 2 people will be in the same reply.

any ideas how we can fix this??

thanks in advance for any help

 

[chanchan05]

It would have to do with the senders, not you. The senders should be replying in MMS format to keep it in group text. However if their phones are set to mass text instead of MMS, it's gonna send as a separate text message.

The models of the phones they use may also be part of the issue (iPhones).