A year ago, we had a friend who we tried to add to a group chat that composed of both iOS and Android users. Unfortunately for some reason, their iOS device would not indicate that it was a group chat. We blamed the provider for that one and had to make both an iMessage group chat and traditional group chat.

Anyways this year as a reminder:

• You cannot just add someone to a non-iMessage group chat, you have to create a totally new group chat.
• Messages sent and recieved by most people can for some reason end up being received a few hours later by a specific subset of people or just lost in the void. Imagine sending “we’re going to down breakfast” and only having that message show up for a friend 12 hours later. I guess somewhat thought that checking for new messages was lower priority than background refreshing apps, it’s not like celluar reception was totally dead in the area.
• If your message does actually fail to send you only get the notification that it failed to send quite a while after.

at this rate it’d be more reliable to use another platform for messaging but it’s hard to get people onto new platforms.

i guess that’s the end of a rant that probaly shouldn’t belong in this blog