Everything about texting a group
How group messaging actually works on iPhone and Android, what the platforms will and will not let an app do, and how to send to a real list without annoying your carrier or your customers. Written to be useful whichever app you use.
Basics
How group messaging really works, and why every app stops at the send button.
Why apps can't auto-send
Every app that texts groups from your phone stops at the same place — the send button. Why iOS and Android both require you to confirm, and what a good app can genuinely do for you.
Group text vs individual
Putting 40 people in one thread means all 40 see each other's replies. How to send the same message as separate private texts instead, on iPhone and Android.
SMS vs MMS vs RCS
Why your group message turned green, became an MMS, or cost more than you expected. The three technologies behind text messaging and how each behaves with multiple recipients.
How-to
The things people actually need to do: build a list, personalise it, schedule it, send it.
Mass text on iPhone
Sending the same message to dozens or hundreds of contacts from an iPhone — what the Messages app can and cannot do, the group messaging setting, and how to avoid a 200-person thread.
Mass text on Android
Sending one message to dozens or hundreds of contacts on Android — the group messaging setting, why helper apps use your default messaging app, and how to keep large sends reliable.
Personalise with names
Placeholders that substitute each recipient's name turn an obvious blast into a message that reads as though you wrote it. How they work, and the mistakes that make them backfire.
Import contacts from CSV
Getting a list out of a spreadsheet, a CRM or a booking system and into a texting list — the file format that works, phone number formatting, and the encoding traps.
Clean your contact list
Duplicates, invalid numbers and missing names quietly ruin a mass text. What to check before sending, why failures are silent, and how to fix a list built up over years.
Schedule recurring texts
Weekly reminders, monthly notices, seasonal greetings — how scheduled and recurring sends work on iPhone and Android, and why a reminder is more reliable than a promise to yourself.
Message templates
The messages you send repeatedly deserve to be written once and written well. Structure, length, tone and a set of templates for reminders, promotions and announcements.
Guide
Carrier limits, the legal side, and whether you need a bulk SMS platform at all.
Carrier limits
Why 400 texts at once quietly disappear, what carriers actually watch for, and how batching keeps a large send reliable without getting your number flagged.
Consent & opt-out
Before you text a list of customers: what counts as consent, what an opt-out has to look like, and how the rules differ between the EU and the US. Plain-language overview, not legal advice.
Bulk SMS vs your phone
Twilio and the SMS platforms charge per message and send from their numbers. Your phone sends from yours, on your plan. An honest comparison of where each one wins.
Background
Where the text message came from, and why it still outlives everything meant to replace it.
Group SMS — for iPhone and Android
Build lists, save templates, personalise with each contact's name and send in carrier-friendly batches — from your own phone, on your own plan. Your contacts never leave your device.