iMessage is Apple’s service designed to send text and multimedia messages to other iOS devices via Wi-Fi or cellular Internet, bypassing standard SMS/MMS messages. Using iMessage and creating group chats you can manage the settings and thus edit the list of participants.

This can be useful if someone sends a lot of spam. Also, if you accidentally add someone to your group. Luckily, in addition to deleting yourself, you can also delete other users from your iMessage group chat. Follow the instructions to learn how to remove a user from an iMessage group chat.

How to delete someone from a text message group in iMessage?

You cannot add or delete users in SMS/MMS group messages, or add or delete users if they use third-party devices. You can only delete a member if there are at least four members in the group and they are all using Apple devices such as an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. So follow these steps to delete someone from a text message group in iMessage:

• The first step is to open the iMessage app on your iPhone.
• After that, you need to select the group conversation from which you want to remove the user.
• Then click on the group icon at the top.
• Click on the right arrow to open the list of group members.
• Next, you need to swipe to the left on the name of the person you want to remove.
• Select ‘Remove‘ and then confirm your action and select ‘Done’.

After these steps, you can get rid of an annoying contact or an accidentally added person. If you don’t have this function, make sure there are at least 4 participants and they are using Apple devices.

At the same time, you can block a member of the group, so that the person can’t contact you, even in private messages. This is sometimes necessary when a person sends a lot of spam or tries to throw you or someone else off balance.

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How to remove yourself from the iMessage group?

It often happens when you’re added to a group and you want to leave it. Quite often it’s practiced for some kind of promotional purposes. It can also be a dialog that distracts you, so it’s wise to leave it and not waste time reading messages.

The ability to leave this conversation from the iMessage group is available only if there are at least three other people in this conversation. There must be at least four other people with you. If you have fewer than four people, the ‘Leave this conversation’ option is inactive.

There is an option to remove yourself from the iMessage group, if you don’t want to participate in the group, follow these steps:

• The first step is to open the iMessage app on your iPhone.
• Then open the group conversation you’re about to leave.
• After that, you need to tap the group icon at the top.
• Next, scroll down and click ‘Leave this conversation’.

Once you have confirmed your actions, you can leave the group and no longer waste time reading messages. If the option to leave a conversation isn’t available, it may mean that one or more users aren’t using an Apple device with iMessage. If you can’t get out of a group conversation, you can turn off notifications for that conversation.

How to add someone to an iMessage group?

It happens that when creating a group chat by mistake added the wrong contact. In this case, you need to add the right person to an existing group chat. Just before you do that, you should know that if you want to add someone to a group text message, but they aren’t using an Apple device, it won’t work. That is, you need to create a new group SMS and MMS message because you can’t add them to an iMessage group. If your contact uses an Apple device, follow these steps:

• The first step is to open the iMessage app on your iPhone.
• Then select the desired chat.
• Next, click on the chat icon at the top.
• Then you need to click on the gray down arrow to open the list of participants.
• Click on the ‘+’ icon at the bottom to add a new participant.
• After that, from the list of all your contacts, you need to select a participant.

After these steps, you will be able to chat in a group chat with the person you want. Also, note that you can’t add someone to a message chat that you already have with just one person.

Quite often when there is a need to manage group settings in iMessage it’s necessary to delete the entire group. However, you should know that there is no such function and you can’t delete the whole group with all its members.