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On my 20-year-old Samsung dumb phone it is easy to set up a group to
send SMS messages to, and it is very easy to resend such a message to
others.

Is there any way of doing the same thing on an Android phone?

I have a sent message I want to resend to the same or other people --
like a reminder of a regular meeting. On the dumb phone I just mark
Forward, Add Recipients, and can then send it to a named group.

Is there any easy way of doing the same thing on an Android phone?
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On 2026-03-03 06:24, Steve Hayes wrote:

On my 20-year-old Samsung dumb phone it is easy to set up a group to
send SMS messages to, and it is very easy to resend such a message to
others.

Is there any way of doing the same thing on an Android phone?

I have a sent message I want to resend to the same or other people --
like a reminder of a regular meeting. On the dumb phone I just mark
Forward, Add Recipients, and can then send it to a named group.

Is there any easy way of doing the same thing on an Android phone?

Certainly, at least with RCS. You can define a group as such, or just
resend to several recipients.
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Carlos E.R. wrote:

Is there any easy way of doing the same thing on an Android phone?

Certainly, at least with RCS. You can define a group as such, or just
resend to several recipients.

Maybe I don't understand the question because I would have thought every
SMS app can create a group just by, well, just by hitting the plus sign.

At least in my PulsSMS (last known good version) that's how it works.
1. I open my SMS app and I hit the (+) button to choose/add recipients
2. I add one or more recipients & when done adding I hit the (->)
3. That creates the group

Likely most other people are on the default SMS messenger & not PulseSMS.
But I would think it works similarly.

So maybe I didn't understand the question.
Is the problem you want to "forward" the conversation to a new group?

For that, on PulseSMS, what I'd do is select it, copy it & send it.
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Steve Hayes wrote:

On my 20-year-old Samsung dumb phone it is easy to set up a group to
send SMS messages to, and it is very easy to resend such a message to
others.

Is there any way of doing the same thing on an Android phone?

A few years ago, Google's default text message app (might have had a
different name back then) tended to "promote" SMS to MMS, because the
American developers didn't realise they cost more in other countries.

Now Google Messages makes it easy, add multiple phone numbers to a conversation, and it'll offer to save the group with a name (that's
private to you) works with SMS or RCS ...

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Maria Sophia wrote:

Maybe I don't understand the question because I would have thought every
SMS app can create a group just by, well, just by hitting the plus sign.

I saw Andy's post which clarified it was about SMS not doing groups by
default, but my PulseSMS has an option for that. Let me look...
PulseSMS > MMS Configuration > Use Group MMS = on/off
When disabled, group messages will be sent out as
individual SMS to each of the recipients.

There's also an option to send long SMS messages as MMS called
PulseSMS > MMS Configuration > Convert to MMS = on/off
Long messages will be sent as MMS instead of individual SMS...
(_)Never
(_)After one message
(_)After two messages
(o)After three messages
(_)After four messages
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Maria Sophia wrote:

PulseSMS has an option for that. Let me look... PulseSMS > MMS
Configuration > Use Group MMS = on/off
-aWhen disabled, group messages will be sent out as
-aindividual SMS to each of the recipients.

I don't think replies from the recipients go to other group members,
unless it's converted to MMS, so conversations tend to get fragmented.
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