[vcf-midatlantic] OT: Locked out of group chat on iPhone 6

[Jeffrey Brace]

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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