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1 | Bryan Grant

June 29th, 2010 at 3:43 pm

I just downloaded your app. Looks like a fairly simple/easy to use interface. Is there any way that I can remove members from a group on the fly (without having to delete them permanantly) For instance, if I make a group for my friends and I want to text them to go out but I know that 2-3 of them are busy and I don’t want to bother them; is there a way I can unselect them before I send a message?

Thanks

2 | matt

June 29th, 2010 at 3:49 pm

Hi Bryan, currently there is no way to do this, but I like the idea, so I can possibly include it in the next revision of Group Texting Pro. Thanks for the feedback! Also, if you like Group Texting Pro, please take the time to rate it so that other people can find it easier on the App Store.

3 | ken

July 3rd, 2010 at 9:56 am

I’m about to buy this, but there is one review that says that you cannot text to more than 10 people at a time. Is this true? If so will this be changed in the future?

4 | matt

July 5th, 2010 at 8:55 am

Hi Ken, The app does let you text more than 10 people at once. I have had reports from one user that he is satisfied with the app, as it allows him to text 85 people at once. There appears to be an AT&T limitation, where if you have the actual ‘Group Messaging’ functionality turned on in the Settings application, then you can only text up to 10 people at once. If you turn this to off, then it should work. Let me know if you have other questions

5 | Matt Young

July 12th, 2010 at 3:29 am

What happens when selecting a contact with multiple numbers. Im I able to choose what number(s) to go to

6 | matt

July 12th, 2010 at 9:26 am

Hi Matt – Group Texting Pro will choose either the ‘mobile number’ or the ‘iPhone number’, whichever is populated. Currently there is no way to tell the app to use a different number

7 | Lonnie

July 15th, 2010 at 8:42 am

I had a problem with the iphone 3GS with the OS4 but when I turned off the Group Texting feature in Settings, it works great. Thanks to you I will now go get the iPhone. This is a must for me to text 65 teenagers at one time Great job.

8 | butch

July 18th, 2010 at 5:21 am

I just installed the app group txt but i found a problem during adding of members in a group, the application suddenly closed and back to main menu. what shall I do?

9 | matt

July 18th, 2010 at 11:25 am

Hi Butch – Sorry you are having trouble. I haven’t had this report from any other users, and I cannot re-produce it here on my phone. Could you do me a favor and send me your crash logs? I sent you an email with instructions on how you can do this. Thanks!

10 | Holly

July 19th, 2010 at 5:34 pm

Matt,
I was so excited about this app bc I have to text 100 teenagers each week for youth group. I created my group, tried it once, and it worked. Now I need to use it again, and it will NOT open. It says it’s loading my groups and then shuts down. I’ve tried it like 10 times and it won’t open. Any suggestions?

11 | Milcc

July 20th, 2010 at 9:59 am

Im trying to send a Text and it wont let me I go to Group select the group then i go to send text and then it goes back to my home screen, I really do like this App but am very aggravated that its not working please help

12 | matt

July 20th, 2010 at 12:53 pm

Hi Holly – There is a bug in the 1.1 version which I have since fixed. The update should be in the AppStore today. Can you try it out and let me know if it is working for you once you get the 1.2 update?

13 | matt

July 20th, 2010 at 12:54 pm

Hi Milcc, I have sent you an email to try to figure out how I can resolve your issue. It is possible that the 1.2 release will fix this as well

14 | Richard Rogers

July 21st, 2010 at 8:40 am

Same problem as * Butch plus I only see partially through “C” in addresses when it closes?

15 | Dirk

July 22nd, 2010 at 12:23 am

Having the same problem as Holly. Have updated to version 1.2, but all I get is a message to say it phone is loading groups, then I get shunted back to my home screen.

16 | matt

July 22nd, 2010 at 11:13 am

Okay I believe I finally figured out what is going on. I submitted a fix to Apple which should be available within the next few days. In the meantime, please email me for support if you want a fix sooner. I can send you a fix for it if you would like me to (it takes a bit of work to install it though)

17 | Lonnie

July 26th, 2010 at 12:53 pm

I can’t find the app in the app store. Do you know why?

18 | matt

July 28th, 2010 at 4:26 pm

Lonnie – The 1.3 version should be in the store for you, and all of the scrolling issues mentioned above are FIXED! Let me know if you guys have any other issues. Please rate the app if you like it!

19 | Luis Fortun

August 16th, 2010 at 10:02 am

Matt-

I love the app! I did notice that I cannot select a letter like “R” to pull up those contacts. The entire scroll bar lights up but unlike the address book from Apple, I cannot select on a letter range to skip ahead. I am using GT vers 1.3. Am I doing something wrong? I have over 600 contacts in my address book, and I have to scroll down 70+ pages to get to the “W” contacts. Thanks! Luey

20 | Mike

August 18th, 2010 at 10:38 am

The app works well but I have the same problem as Luis. The scroll bar does not work. like Luis I have several hundred contacts.

21 | Paul Scott

August 20th, 2010 at 8:39 am

Hi Matt, How would I send emails to several groups at once using Groups 2.1? These groups are already pre-existing in Contacts – that is, they are from Address Book from my Mac.

22 | matt

August 20th, 2010 at 3:39 pm

Hi Luis,
I am currently looking into this issue and will let you know when I have a fix. Sorry for the inconvenience! It seems to only happen to people who have many contacts

23 | matt

August 20th, 2010 at 3:39 pm

Hi Mike,
See my feedback to Luis. Will let you know as well when it is fixed

24 | matt

August 20th, 2010 at 3:40 pm

Hi Paul,
I am not sure I understand your question. My app only does text messaging, and there is currently not an option to select more than one group at once…but I could consider that to be a feature for a later release. Thanks

25 | Paul Scott

August 21st, 2010 at 6:41 am

Sorry. Wrong app. Paul

26 | Luis Fortun

September 9th, 2010 at 2:26 pm

Matt-

Any update on the scrolling feature? Just curious when we might see something come through the itunes store.

Thanks,

Luey

27 | George

September 10th, 2010 at 4:26 pm

My app has frozen! All I get when I tap your icon is the initial screen. It will stay like that until I push the home screen button(?). What can I do to get this problem resolved?

28 | Dave French

November 5th, 2010 at 8:46 am

I have just loaded the app and all seems very good. My only comment is that it collates the contacts by first name not by surname and there is not way of changing this as a preference. Maybe next time?

29 | Tina

December 22nd, 2010 at 12:25 pm

Every app that I have downloaded in the past for texting groups has required the receipent to sign up for the same app or start and account. Not everyone I text uses a smart phone. Is this a requirement for using your app?

30 | becky

December 27th, 2010 at 9:32 am

i finally figured out i had to have group text off in my phone’s settings…got my message out…and the app crashed my phone and deleted ALL of my past text conversations…what is that about?

31 | Jack

December 31st, 2010 at 6:01 pm

I have over 1000 contacts and have them divided into many groups. Keep running into 3 reoccurring problems: 1) Scrollbar doesn’t work; 2) App sorts my contact list by putting first names in alphabetical order, instead of by last names; 3) Several times while group texting all the individual texts in my regular text app get erased. Please help.

32 | Gerry

January 1st, 2011 at 1:40 pm

Does this app work with irish phone companies eg vodafone.ie

33 | Mike Murphy

February 17th, 2011 at 6:16 pm

Hi. Love the app but yesterday when I used it I lost all my existing text info. I am really stressed about this. Can you help me. I don’t mind paying to get it back. Is it still in my phone somewhere.

34 | MLP

March 11th, 2011 at 8:03 am

Hi — Just downloaded your app. One suggestion — make the contacts list in alphabetical order by LAST name. Or, at the very least, a choice of either.

35 | Heavy

March 29th, 2011 at 8:59 am

I just downloaded your app and my problem is once I push the send button nothing happens like it just sits there forever Help please

36 | Jeff

March 29th, 2011 at 9:25 am

Hey: I am running into an issue that when I send a group text out to my team, several say that they cannot read it. They do not have iPhones or even smart phones. Any idea why these cannot get the text? If I send them a single text from the iphone it works just fine. SMS vs MMS??? Any help would be great. The app is VERY easy to use!

37 | Kenny

April 22nd, 2011 at 2:39 pm

Hi – Just downloaded your and my problem is that it sends an MMS message as opposed to a SMS message. Using an iphone4 3g. Any way to fix this as many of my players do not have MMS. Thanks.

38 | Brian

April 25th, 2011 at 3:58 pm

I am having problems sending. I have first and last name in all numbers. All numbers are under mobile or iPhone. All have the 1 infront of the area code. Not happy with pruduct

39 | Kenneth Stockton

May 13th, 2011 at 3:20 pm

I downloaded the app and it is easy to use. However, a lot of my receipients (ball players) cannot read because it tells them that it is a MMS message. I am using an Iphone. Is there a fix for this.

Also, I have gottent this message as well:

Message Send Failure

Your help would be appreciated.

40 | Kiko

May 18th, 2011 at 10:16 pm

What is the max number of contacts that can be added to a group?

41 | Maury

June 21st, 2011 at 10:12 pm

I’m trying to send a text to 64 members of my club and it does not work… Is there a limitation to the number allowed in a group?

42 | Mike

June 24th, 2011 at 6:19 pm

I group text my team, but they are all seeing the replies that are meant to come back to me.

43 | Mike

June 25th, 2011 at 7:29 pm

I tried your fix, changing group to OFF, but it still shows some of the replies that are supposed to just come to me.

44 | Kelly

August 20th, 2011 at 12:45 pm

PLEASE help. I downloaded this app and its wonderful but Im having a problem. I have about 30 contacts and each one of them have about 7 to 10 numbers in each contact file. They are all set to mobile. However when I go to send out as a group text it will only send to the very first contact number that was listed with that name. Is there anyway I can get it to send to all 7 to 10 numbers listed in the contact???? Please contact me at my email address kelly@riveroflove.com

45 | Christian Canalita

August 30th, 2011 at 1:07 pm

Hi Matt,

Please help. I can’t add some contacts to a group. I get a message that says, “…..the contact must have a first and/or last, etc.”.

The contacts I’m trying to add are in my address book (in my iphone).

What should I do?

Christian

46 | Michael

September 21st, 2011 at 1:14 pm

I downloaded the app for my new iphone yesterday. I tried to send a group text to 24 recipients and it will not send. Keeps coming up with error, “Your message was not sent”. I am on Verizon, not AT&T.
Thanks for your help,
Michael

47 | Tracy

October 11th, 2011 at 11:15 am

I am An Iphone user and I have the CallVine app and one problem is that in a group of say 12 people, if one of these people changes their phone number then the text shows up as “failed attempt “. At that point I have to go thru all the names and numbers to find out which one doesnt work and delete it. Does your app go ahead and send the “good” numbers and just not the bad ones?

48 | Jeff Nelsen

October 14th, 2011 at 7:19 am

Matt,

Have been using the Group Texting Pro app for over a year now with overall great success. I send a daily Bible verse text to over 270 people every morning M-F. Thank you for designing this app!

However, this morning, it failed horribly, sending the phone numbers out to each person, yet they couldn’t open the text.

I fear that it is because when I updated yesterday to the new 5.0 for the iPhone, it made your app no longer functional with the new 5.0

Do you have any insights? There is no other app out there like yours that does what you created. Would you be able to fix the bugs that may be creating this? I did make sure I went to settings and had the right things turned off still, and I did.

Thank you so much,
Jeff

49 | Kathi

October 24th, 2011 at 8:03 pm

I just down loaded this app and it looks like it could be GREAT, however, it’s pulling my contacts from another location and I can’t figure out where! They are VERY OLD contacts that I don’t even use anymore! Shouldn’t it take the contacts right from my iPhone? And the contacts that show up, I can’t get into to find out if thuley all have a phone number listed or email address! It won’t let me edit the contacts either! Or change the setting to read, last name first!!! Ugh!!! I’m frustrated!!! PLEASE HELP! I really need to use this app!!!

50 | danielle

November 26th, 2011 at 1:53 pm

Hi – I just downloaded this app and when I get a response from one of the people I texted, it doesn’t show my text that I sent them, it only shows their response-what should I do?

51 | Kellie wood

December 6th, 2011 at 5:43 pm

This ap has not worked at all for me. Please contact me so I can figure out how to tx a group. Or please refund my money. I have tried to shut off group tx on settings and tried it on. I don’t understand why it is not working. Please help

52 | Kevin R.

December 11th, 2011 at 5:23 pm

Danielle – the nice thing about this app is that when people respond, their text doesn’t go back to the whole group, that is why you don’t see the message you sent.

53 | matt

December 11th, 2011 at 5:38 pm

Hi all,
Sorry I haven’t posted responses to comments directly to this feed! I usually just respond directly to the user who posted the comment via email, and I’m very responsive. I have been able to resolve almost all of the issues listed above, as its usually just a configuration issue with your Group SMS or MMS settings. Please feel free to email directly at MattStockton@gmail.com Thanks for your business!

54 | Wesley

December 15th, 2011 at 10:43 am

My group texting was working great until now. When I text members on my group only a handful gets the text. I had no problems till recently.

55 | Mickey Eckles

January 5th, 2012 at 4:37 pm

Love the app. It seems like 2-3 names disappear on my lists randomly. One time they are all there. The next time I text, one or two people are missing from the group I created. I am on the Sprint network. Any reason for this to be happening or possible solutions? Thanks!

56 | Lisa

January 6th, 2012 at 9:30 pm

My group texting was working until recently after updating my Iphone 4S, but now only the Iphone contacts in my group are receiving the messages. What settings do I need to do to get it back working again? I manage a soccer team and am always sedning out group texts.

57 | Belton

January 13th, 2012 at 8:19 am

Love the app. However, recently after upgrading to iPhone 4 with ios5. My phone has been locking up when I try to open the text I sent. Also, some of the recipients say it locks their phones up too and some get broken msgs or blanks. What’s the max recipients & which MSG settings should be on/off?