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

[Dean Notarnicola]

   1. For iPhone 6:
   2. Press and hold down the ‌iPhone‌'s *Sleep/Wake button* on the right
   side of the handset.
   3. With the *Sleep/Wake button* still held down, press and hold the *Home
   button* on the front of the handset.
   4. Continue to hold both buttons while the display remains blank, until
   it comes back on with the Apple logo showing. Continue holding until the
   display goes blank.
   5. Release the buttons then press the *Sleep/Wake* button to power the
   phone on.
   6. Hopefully that helps.


On Fri, Jan 1, 2021 at 5:45 PM Dean Notarnicola <dnotarnicola at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I find a cold reset does wonders for idiosyncratic problems like that.
>
> On Fri, Jan 1, 2021 at 4:41 PM Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic <
> vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>> > >
>> > > --
>> > > =========================================
>> > > 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
>> > >
>> > --
>> > Jason Perkins 313 355 0085 Sent from my iPhone
>> >
>>
>>
>> --
>> =========================================
>> 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
>>
>