Group chat is an amazing feature on the iPhone to talk with your family members or friends; however, sometimes, it gets irritating because you don’t want to deal with unnecessary notifications on your iPhone. If you don’t know how to leave a group chat on your iPhone, don’t worry; I’m here to help you.
Just continue reading for a few minutes, and then you’ll learn how to get out of any unnecessary group conversation on your iPhone. Let’s jump right into it.
How do you leave a group chat on your iPhone?
1: Launch your iPhone or iPad’s “iMessage” app.
2: Open the group chat that you want to leave.
3: Click on the group chat’s top option, i.e., Members Section.
4: If you are using iOS 14 or earlier versions on your iPhone, click the “i” option and then select the “Leave this conversation” option. If you are using iOS 15, iOS 16, or iOS 17 on your iPhone, you need to scroll down a bit and then select the “Leave this conversation” option to leave a group on iMessage.
5: You’ll be asked to confirm this step, and you have to click on “Leave this conversation” again to leave the group.
Step 6: Finally, click on the “Done” option from the top, and that is it.
Leaving a group chat on an iPhone is pretty easy, but you must know a few things about it.
- You can only leave a group chat on iMessage If there are more than 3 members except you. Leaving the group chat on the iPhone is impossible if the member’s count is less than 4.
- To leave a group chat on an iPhone, all the group members must be iOS users.
- Once you leave a group chat on your iPhone or iPad, other group members will get notifications about that.
If you have a group on iMessage where you see all the group texts in the BLUE color, it means all the group chat members use an iPhone and send the message via iMessage.
When the text messages in the group chat of iPhone in the GREEN color, the specific user is using an Android device. See the image below for your reference.
Also, you must keep in mind that all the members of the chat will get to know that you have left that group chat. If you have no issues about that, you can leave it without any issues, or you may have to face an awkward situation.
How to leave a group chat on iPhone with Android users?
Unfortunately, there is no way to leave a group chat on an iPhone If any recipients use an Android device.
Yes, you read that right. It is disappointing that the iPhone and Apple must work on this feature in the future. But it doesn’t mean it is the end of the world. There is one thing you can do right now to stop getting notifications from a group chat on your iPhone, and that is to mute the notifications.
Here’s how you can do that:
- Launch the iMessage app on your iPhone and open the group chat you want to mute.
- Click on the members option from the top.
- If you are using iOS 14 or earlier versions, click on the “i” option in the group setting, or If you are using iOS 15 or later versions, tap on the “Hide Alerts” option.
- Finally, tap on “Done,” and that’s it.
After enabling this setting, you will no longer receive any notifications about that group chat on your iPhone. You’ll be able only to see the messages of that group If you open the iMessage app on your device or else you will no longer get disturbed by that group chat.
Even though the above steps are pretty easy to follow If you want a shortcut method to do the same thing, here’s what you need to do:
- Launch the iMessage app and swipe left to that group.
- Now, tap on the “Bell” icon next to the delete option, and you are done. If you using an older iOS version, you’ll get the “Moon” icon instead of the Bell.
I hope this shortcut will be helpful for you to mute the notifications about the group chat messages on your iPhone where Android users are involved.
No option to leave group text on the iPhone:
If you cannot leave group text iPhone, there are two reasons behind that.
- Some members of that group chat on iPhone are currently using an Android device.
- Some group chat members might be currently using an outdated version of iOS.
Let me explain these two things more clearly.
As I mentioned above, If there is at least one Android user in the group chat of your iMessage, you’ll not get the “Leave this conversation” option because Apple has still not given this feature even after a long time. Unfortunately, we have to wait more time to get this feature.
Suppose you get annoyed from getting notifications of a group chat with Android users or users. In that case, you have only one option i.e. muting the group chat, and you can follow the above steps If you don’t want to get disturbed anymore.
The next thing you can assume If you have no “Leave this conversation” option in the group chat, at least one iOS user might be using the outdated version, and it might be causing this error for you. What you can do is request the group members to update their iPhone or iPad as soon as possible, and hopefully, you may get that option in the future.
I hope everything is clear for you now. That is why you have no option to leave the group chat.
Frequently Asked Questions:
If they leave, this conversation button is grayed out when you are trying to leave a group chat on iMessage; it is because there might be only 3 people in the group. You need to add at least one more person to the group chat to leave the group.
Another possibility why this could have happened is there might be an Android user in the group chat.
Unfortunately, leaving a group chat on your iPhone or iPad without knowing others isn’t possible because Apple hasn’t made such features yet.
When you leave a group on your iPhone or iPad, other people will know about it, and there’s nothing you can do about it as of now.
The graceful way to leave a group chat on your iPhone or iPad, leave a message to the group members that you are leaving the group chat because you want to focus on something important. Hopefully, they will understand your situation and won’t mind about it.
Leaving a group chat on iPhone is quite painful, as others will know about it, and If you don’t want to leave a bad impression while leaving a group, it is the best idea to leave a small note or message about why you are leaving the group chat.
Absolutely, Yes. You can join the same group chat on iMessage, which you may have recently left, but you’ll need to ask someone else to join the group, and that’s it.
Conclusion:
Group chat is a pretty cool way to talk with your friends, but it might be quite annoying when you want to focus on a specific task, and you are getting unnecessary notifications from that group.
You must know how to leave a group chat on your iPhone, and that’s what I’ve tried to explain to you above. I hope you may have understood that process with this article’s help.
If you have any other questions about iMessage or similar topics, do not hesitate to comment down below, and I’ll get back to you very soon. Thanks.
Since 2014 I have been writing about tech and helping others to fix tech issues related to Android, Windows, iOS, Chromebook, and more.
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