How to Create A Contact Group on iPhone (iOS 16)

Learn how to create iPhone contact groups using iCloud or the Messages app.
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Making iPhone contact groups allows you to quickly send a message or email to multiple people. Counterintuitively, if you want to create a group in Contacts on an iPhone and use it for email, you'll need to do so on a Mac or PC. The contact group will then sync to your iPhone automatically via iCloud. If you want to create a contact group for text messages, you can do that in the iPhone Messages app. We'll teach you how to add groups on your iPhone using either of these methods.
How to Make a Group Contact on iPhone for Email
You used to be able to both text and email an iPhone contact group, but now iPhone contact groups only work for emails. So you'll need to follow the steps in the section below to learn how to create a group text on iPhone. Before you can learn how to put contacts into groups on an iPhone, you'll need to enable Contacts in iCloud so that your contacts can be accessed on your Mac or in iCloud.com. Once this setting is enabled, you can make a contact group on your computer and it will automatically appear on your iPhone.
If you are using a PC, you will need to log in to iCloud.com. On a Mac, you will use the Contacts app.
How to Create a Group on iPhone for Texting
You used to be able to text iPhone contact groups as well as email them, but that feature no longer works. However, the Messages app lets you create a group text on your iPhone, name it, and pin that chat to the top of the Messages app so you can easily find and text that contact group any time. For more tips about the Contacts app and Messages app, check out our free Tip of the Day. Here's how to add a group to an iPhone for texting:
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[@iPhoneLifeMagazine]

We hope you found our tutorial on creating an iPhone contact group helpful! If you want to leave a group text (or mute it if Android users are part of it) watch this video on How to Leave a Group Chat on iPhone: ua-cam.com/video/2JgajRziOCQ/v-deo.html!

[@pauletterichards4905]

Same on iPhone 11, no option to add groups

[@doctore02]

Excellent and extremely useful video

[@gregnixon1296]

Being able to create separate text groups for work, family, etc., used to be easily done and was helpful. Since it was such a winner, that ability has now been eliminated. YAY!!

[@EmilyGarcia-ov8pj]

GUYS I THINK I FIGURED IT OUT
1. Go to iPhone messages app
2. On the right corner click note pen icon
3 Type the peoples names you wish to add to group chat (separately) (should show up green for each name )
4. Then on the the bottom that says type message type like a random word or number just to send to other people to start group
5. The group chat will be new and with all the people you chose to add will be there
(I HAVE IPHONE SO I DONT KNOW IF IT WORKS FOR ANDROID!)
Hope this helps ! ❤️😃

[@iPhoneLifeMagazine]

Yes exactly! This was the last suggestion in our video :) it isn't quite a contact group but it lets you text everyone and you can pin it in your Messages app! Just keep in mind that if you add an Android user to a text group, several features won't work and no one will be able to leave it. You can still mute it though: ua-cam.com/video/2JgajRziOCQ/v-deo.html!

[@adamssk2]

These are wonderful directions. very clear and precise, except that I don’t have a Mac computer. 😫

[@gayan1742]

So I need buy a Mac just to create a contact group. How convenient 😂

[@Lisajcarton]

this is a great video but I STILL don't see my group name come up when I type its name to create a new massage.... HELP?!?! thanks!!!!

[@bobstratton6362]

Wow! Very good instructive video. Easy to follow and understand. Well done. Not the usual UA-cam disaster.

[@jtepsr]

my iphone 13 does not show a field to change group name change????

[@charlottefachenberg2488]

same

[@iPhoneLifeMagazine]

Do you have an Android user in your group? You can only change the name if all the users have iPhones. If you click on the link in the description you'll find the steps to do this on an iPhone 13 :)

[@pacnwgrl]

Four question marks won’t get you a faster or better reply 😂

[@heatherhart]

Changing text group name worked for all my iMessages contacts. Too bad I have to make a second (unnamed) group for my Android contacts :(

[@ChefGuruJeff]

Another APPLE/MAC iphone 13 pro disappointment. This is about as intuitive and streamlined as turning a tanker at sea. Really? Sad.

[@jasonvalentz4011]

If I don’t have a Mac, then this video is useless

[@cindyhaggard1389]

Some of the things I was told to click on do not appear on my phone. Since I updated I have lost all the groups I had before were lost. Please help.

[@Tpshloads]

Thank you

[@joshrobinson506]

For some reason my mother's phone does not give the option to rename the group, it just opens a list of the people in the message. Guess i'll keep looking.

[@kevinrutledge9602]

So the video is misnamed then. The video about creating contact groups on your phone involves creating them on your computer and syncing them

[@Twindadx2_]

How do you create the contact list with both iPhone and Android users? Specifically a larger group ex 50-100 people without everyone getting the replies?

[@fbcpraise]

With a third party app. I'm working on this myself. Hit Em Up Mass Text looks promising, though I haven't tried it yet. GroupMe did NOT work for us.

[@GUMGUMGUMGUM0101]

But how to delete

[@cameronmilioni6761]

Yeah that don’t exist on my phone

[@Black_History_Nation]

I don’t see change name and photo