Group messaging option missing on iPhone 16 Pro

Lib4life wrote:

Thank you. I did go back to my carrier, Verizon, and they explained the same thing, that group message is no longer in settings. RCS, according to them, takes care of the group messaging. All my messages from the past week just came through today after they reset the SIM as well. I am not sure it will work perfectly until a new update from Apple, but at least at the moment, there is a better chance. Thank you all for your replies and information.

Again MMS is Verion's feature not Apples. Apple doesn't need to do an update, if you continue to have issue in the future, you'll need to contact Verizon support again.

Lib4life wrote:

Good morning. After reading through many posts on the issue of not receiving and slow sending of group text messages to Android users, I looked at on older iPhone I have and the messaging settings. Old phone has a group text setting, 16 does not. Seems like this should be an easy fix, Apple. I believe others have found this as well. I have been an Apple customer for over 30 years. It would be quite inconvenient for me to switch to Android and Windows now, but if this issue is not fixed soon, I will be seriously considering it. With aging parents and family spread throughout the country, group text messages are a vital tool for daily connections and communications. I would prefer not to have to introduce my mother to a new app, just to accomplish this. See pictures below to illustrate the difference. Top is iPhone 16 Pro. Bottom is older phone running 15.8.4 Seriously, Apple, as others have said, FIX THIS. :)

https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/3dd8adb7-c818-461f-bed0-a01b5eb45c21

https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/205b5632-36b7-449f-a1b2-73230d48cbcf

MMS is something you pay your phone carrier a monthly fee to use, doesn't matter if you switch to Android or Windows phone, if your line isn't provisioned by them to use then it won't work.

Contact yours to resolve the issue.

That setting was removed with, I believe, the release of iOS 18.

If you have group messaging enabled with your carrier (I believe it's pretty much automatic these days), that's all you need. Like SMS, you can't turn it on or off from your phone. However, razmee209 is correct that this is a carrier issue. If you're having problems with group messaging with non-iMessage users, I would start by contacting your carrier.

Lib4life wrote:

All my messages from the past week just came through today after they reset the SIM as well. I am not sure it will work perfectly until a new update from Apple, but at least at the moment, there is a better chance.

So the problem actually had nothing to do with Apple, as both razmee209 and I explained.

Glad you got it fixed.