What I'm looking for is an app where you choose the contacts to send a text message to, type in the text, and then the app sends the SMS message to one person individually, then to the next person individually, and so forth. Bonus points if it allows you to enter more than 20 contacts at one time. Every texting app I've looked at so far has sent multiple-recipient texts as MMS group messages, and that's what I'm trying to avoid.
I sometimes have to send a "blanket text" to all our employees. With nearly 40 people, it just is not practical to send each person an individual SMS text. But the only way I know of to text multiple people at the same time is to send a group MMS message, which is a problem for 2 reasons. First, it's limited to 20 people, which means I have to send the same message multiple times. (Not as big of a deal now as it was when we had almost 50 people and the phone I had at the time would only text a group of 10, but still.)
Second, when one member of that group responds, the reply goes to everyone in the group. The only thing worse than getting 20 texts from people you don't even know saying "ok" is when half of them respond to each "ok" with "who is this?" I remember one epic group texting fiasco where, over the course of an hour, I got 40 texts, and 39 of them were throwaways from people I didn't even know. Plus, of course, if you don't have a data plan for whatever reason, you don't even get MMS messages.
I have a T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S6, unlocked but not rooted, and I'm using Samsung's stock texting app, not Hangouts. The people I'm texting have a variety of Android, Windows, and iPhone devices and are pretty evenly split between T-Mobile and Verizon. So I need something that will send messages that work across multiple platforms and carriers. I guess basically what I want is an app that will automate the process of typing a text and sending it to one person, then typing that same text again and sending it to one different person, and on down the list. Surely I'm not the only one who's had this problem and someone, somewhere, has figured out a solution?
I sometimes have to send a "blanket text" to all our employees. With nearly 40 people, it just is not practical to send each person an individual SMS text. But the only way I know of to text multiple people at the same time is to send a group MMS message, which is a problem for 2 reasons. First, it's limited to 20 people, which means I have to send the same message multiple times. (Not as big of a deal now as it was when we had almost 50 people and the phone I had at the time would only text a group of 10, but still.)
Second, when one member of that group responds, the reply goes to everyone in the group. The only thing worse than getting 20 texts from people you don't even know saying "ok" is when half of them respond to each "ok" with "who is this?" I remember one epic group texting fiasco where, over the course of an hour, I got 40 texts, and 39 of them were throwaways from people I didn't even know. Plus, of course, if you don't have a data plan for whatever reason, you don't even get MMS messages.
I have a T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S6, unlocked but not rooted, and I'm using Samsung's stock texting app, not Hangouts. The people I'm texting have a variety of Android, Windows, and iPhone devices and are pretty evenly split between T-Mobile and Verizon. So I need something that will send messages that work across multiple platforms and carriers. I guess basically what I want is an app that will automate the process of typing a text and sending it to one person, then typing that same text again and sending it to one different person, and on down the list. Surely I'm not the only one who's had this problem and someone, somewhere, has figured out a solution?
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