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

[Jeffrey Brace]

On Fri, Jan 1, 2021 at 4:09 PM Jason Perkins via vcf-midatlantic <
vcf-midatlantic at 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 at 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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> >
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Jeff Brace
Vice President & Board Member
Vintage Computer Festival East Show-runner
Vintage Computer Federation is a 501c3 charity
http://www.vcfed.org/
jeffrey at vcfed.org
cell: 732-759-1783