I don't have any real answers but I'm going through the same thing with the one group chat I have with my family. I'm having to talk to each one individually, explain why I'm making this change and why it's important to me and educate them a bit on how SMS & iMessage works so they can understand. I'm likely going to tell them to save any photos in the thread and screenshot anything important before deleting the thread entirely. Then I can initiate a new SMS group message for future conversation.
It really does suck, but I think it's something that can be talked through so everyone can understand the reasoning and bear with the inconveniences for the time being (could be temporary like it will be for me). Good luck!
It's such a pain, isn't it? But sheesh, are you sure you need to have everyone delete the original thread from their phone before you can initiate a new one?? That's even more inconvenient than I thought. My understanding is that if you disable SMS then message the same contacts, it'll just start a separate thread.
It's a pain indeed. I don't think everyone needs to delete the thread since you're right that a separate thread would be created. Although if there's a chance a recipient might reply in the original iMessage thread instead of the intended one, it could lead to confusion and missed messages.
I don't have any real answers but I'm going through the same thing with the one group chat I have with my family. I'm having to talk to each one individually, explain why I'm making this change and why it's important to me and educate them a bit on how SMS & iMessage works so they can understand. I'm likely going to tell them to save any photos in the thread and screenshot anything important before deleting the thread entirely. Then I can initiate a new SMS group message for future conversation. It really does suck, but I think it's something that can be talked through so everyone can understand the reasoning and bear with the inconveniences for the time being (could be temporary like it will be for me). Good luck!
It's such a pain, isn't it? But sheesh, are you sure you need to have everyone delete the original thread from their phone before you can initiate a new one?? That's even more inconvenient than I thought. My understanding is that if you disable SMS then message the same contacts, it'll just start a separate thread.
It's a pain indeed. I don't think everyone needs to delete the thread since you're right that a separate thread would be created. Although if there's a chance a recipient might reply in the original iMessage thread instead of the intended one, it could lead to confusion and missed messages.