Easy Step-By-Step – Remove Someone From A Group Text

What is a Group Text?  Or Group Messaging as it is characterized in the tech world.  It is defined as a message which consists of 3 or more people.  This capability allows you to send the same message to a group of people instead of a single person.  There are many advantages to using a Group Text versus a single-person text, for example, it saves you from sending multiple messages which can be a lot of work.

But what if you want to remove someone from a group text?  This may be because someone is no longer on a project or you may want to drop a person from a group text because you no longer want them on the future messages you are sending to the existing group.

You have two options:

• Create a new group message and add each of the individuals you only want on the group text
• Remove the individuals from the existing text message group because you don’t want to restart all the existing messages you have already sent

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The most common platform for group text messages is your phone.  Whether you have the most popular iPhone or Android there are easy step-by-step procedures to remove individuals.

IPhone (Group Messages or Group Chat)

Step 1 – Go To Message App

Click to open the “Messages” application on your iPhone. the home screen comes up, displaying your current open conversation threads.

Step 2 – Pick Message Group

Go down through your current message threads, and then pick the group chat message thread where you want to remove someone.

Step 3 – Select “i”

Click on the blue “i” icon in the upper-right part of the screen. Then the details window comes up. This shows the name or phone number of each of the individuals in the group chat.

Step 4 – Select Person

Move down to the person or phone number you want to remove from the group chat or message, and then swipe the name or phone number from right to left.  A red box will appear with the word Remove in it.

Step 5 – Bring Up Red Box

Remove your finger from the screen. The red box with the text Remove inside of it appears to the right of the name of the person you want to remove.

Step 6 – Select Red Box

Click “Remove.” A sub-menu box comes up from the bottom of the screen, asking to remove this individual or phone number from the group chat or message.

Step 7 – Click Red Box

Click the red “Remove” button. Then the individual will be removed from that group chat going forward.

This also works well with all iPhone operating systems such as iPhone 6, iPhone 7 plus, iPhone 8.

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Android

Android has a little different way of removing someone from group text but the same ideology exists.

Step 1 – Go To Message App

Click on and open your message application on your Android.

Step 2 – Select The Group

Select the group you want to change.  Whether you want to remove yourself or another individual.

Step 3 – Select Individual

Look through the list of names or phone numbers and look to the right for the three dots (vertical)

Step 4 – Select The Three Dots

When you select the three dots click on them and a sub-menu will appear

Step 5 – Select Remove

Click on the remove option in the sub-menu

This works well with all iPhone operating systems such as Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S8