On Fri, Jan 1, 2021 at 4:09 PM Jason Perkins via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Does the conversation have a lot of pictures or videos in it?
If it’s just text, and his phone has 3gb of available space it should be fine. If the group text has a lot of pictures / videos, I could see it having problems with a phone that’s full.
Mostly texts, but we do post pictures and videos to the chat. He's the only one who has the problem. But I wouldn't think that there are 3GB of pictures and videos and texts that would fill up in less than a week.
-J
On Fri, Jan 1, 2021 at 11:37 AM Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
OK. So I'm in a family group text chat (SMS) since Covid-19 started and there are 14 people in the chat. My uncle has an iPhone 6 and 3 GB of free storage. So after a certain time he is "locked out" of the group conversation and doesn't receive any conversations from the group chat. His belief is that everyone needs to delete the conversation from their phones to get back into the group chat. So he believes that after everyone deletes the conversation, then he will get a flood of conversations again. This seems to happened, but I believe that it is a coincidence. He claims that his phone fills up with 3 GB of messages when everyone doesn't delete the conversation.
1) How can I explain to him that this is not how smart phones work? 2) How can I troubleshoot the *real* problem so that it doesn't keep happening?
Also he doesn't want to get a new phone because he can't afford it.
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