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How to get out of annoying group texts on iOS and Android


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Anyone who's gotten stuck in an unwanted group text knows how terrible it can be. Your phone blows up uncontrollably, and all you can do is hope the thread eventually quiets down.

For the longest time, the only way to leave a group text was to block your friends or flat-out tell them to stop texting you. Luckily, Apple added support way back in iOS 8 to easily remove yourself from an iMessage Group, and it's still here in iOS 12.

Android doesn't have an iMessage equivalent (at least not one that's universal, though that might be changing with Chat), but in that ecosystem it's as simple as deleting the message. Read more...

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