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

[Jeffrey Brace]

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.
>

Thanks! That's a good suggestion. Easily done.


>
> 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
>>
>

-- 
=========================================
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