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Today's wikiHow teaches you how to send text, video, or audio messages to multiple people using mobile data.

Steps

Part 1 of 3: Enable MMS

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   Open Settings. The app is greyed out in the shape of a gear (⚙️) and is usually located on the home screen.

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   Scroll down and tap Messages (Message). This button is grouped with other Apple apps, like Mail and Notes.

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   Swipe "Send as SMS" to the "On" position. This button is near the bottom of the screen. iPhone sends messages using cellular data when iMessage is unavailable.

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   Scroll down and swipe "MMS Messaging" to the "On" position. This button is in the SMS / MMS section and will turn green. This allows your phone to send photo and video messages using a cellular data plan you subscribe to with your carrier.
   • MMS is different from iMessage, you can send iMessage using Wi-Fi when both the sender and the receiver are using iMessage, when there is Wi-Fi there is no need for mobile data.

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   Swipe "Group Messaging" to the "On" position. This button is just below "MMS Messaging" in the same category. You will be able to send Group Message, ie MMS messages to multiple people.
   • All other recipients of the group message can see all of the other recipients. Feedback is sent to the whole team, not just you.
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Part 2 of 3: Turn on mobile data

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   Open Settings. The app is greyed out in the shape of a gear (⚙️) and is usually located on the home screen.

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   Click Cellular (Mobile Data) is near the top of the menu.
   • This menu will be labeled as Mobile Data if iPhone language is set to English (English).

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   Swipe “Cellular Data” to the “On” position. The switch will turn green.
   • If you have a messaging plan that includes MMS from your carrier, you don't need to have cellular data turned on to send MMS messages.
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Part 3 of 3: Troubleshooting MMS

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   Check that your device and services are compatible. To use MMS, you must have iPhone 3G or later, iOS 3.1 or later, mobile data plan and local MMS plan.
   • You can check your iOS version by tapping General (General Settings) in the main menu, then tap About (Introduce).
   • You must subscribe to a data plan that supports MMS to use it.

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   Turn off Wi-Fi and try opening a website. So you will check whether the mobile data plan is working properly. If not, you need to contact your carrier to fix the mobile data connection.

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   Turn off iMessage to see if you can send MMS messages. If iMessage is turned on, the phone tries to send iMessage messages first. An error can occur if one of your contacts just transferred from iPhone to Android without disabling iMessage. iPhone will still try sending MMS messages to their iMessage account instead of the phone number with MMS.
   • Open Settings.
   • Click Messages.
   • Claw iMessage on Off.
   • Try sending or receiving MMS messages.

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   Reset Network Settings. This will reload your mobile connection settings and fix the MMS service error temporarily.
   • Open Settings.
   • Click General.
   • Click Reset (Reset).
   • Click Reset Network Settings. You will need to enter a passcode (if applicable).

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   Contact carrier. MMS is a carrier feature, which means that the carrier manages servers that send MMS data from iPhone to another phone and vice versa. If you continue to have problems with MMS, you can reset the MMS service and fix the transmission error.

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   Restore iPhone and reset as new. You can do this when everything doesn't work. Make a backup before restoring so you can get all your data back.
   • See more online for more details on how to restore iPhone.
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Advice

• On iPhone, SMS only needs phone signal to send / receive, but MMS requires mobile data (such as 3G, 4G).
• You can identify which protocol iMessage is using by the color of the message. Blue means iMessage is in use, and green means the message is being sent as SMS / MMS. Multimedia messages in green require mobile data to receive and send.