Super simple and exactly what I was needing so I can text my soccer teams. Thanks.

This was helpful! I send out texts every morning to a growing group of men to encourage them, each day. This will save me a LOT of clicks and a bit of time. Appreciate it much!

First time watcher of your videos. Great job. Clear - direct - paced - no music to have to listen to, perfect.

The 2am "you up" texts are gonna hit diff. now!

AMAZING! You have no IDEA how much this has helped me and our congregation to send out daily readings. Though, I would like to set a schedule in case I oversleep, (it has happened) LOL! ...But, this is a blessing in it of itself since I also do not have to pay additional money to sent it. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU! 🙏

Hey CJ is it possible to attach an image on the the mass text??

You just BLEW my mind! Thank you so much for this it will change my business tasks so much!

CJ This was great! Where have you been all of my iphone life?!? Thanks again!

THANK YOU SOOOOOO MUCH I have having such a hard time, it shouldn't be this difficult and you explained it well much appreciated

It works. Much better job this time. Thank you!

woohoo!! this was great. thanks. did exactly what I wanted it to do!

Thanks for this updated version. 👍🏾

Huge shootout to you for making this video !! I saved ton of time to send message with my new phone number to all my contacts

C tech- guess what bro! i can't thank you enough. it took me twice but it is done working like a swiss army knife. let me be the first one to tell you you are brilliant and a real presenter.

mine's not repeating automatically, I had to click send button manually

Hi. Can you do a video where it can pick numbers from a list not contacts and message each of them?

Thank you for your video saves me a bunch of time

Thank you thank you thank you so much!!!!

i love your presentation. i'm gonna try this now. not a gamer but this is gonna be for the brothers in my church. thank you CJ3K .

Great video and very helpful!

This took me so long to get, but I finally got it. Than you so much.

Bro what?!!!! This is just money! Thank you!

Awesome greenscren tip!

Think it’s about time for an update video for iOS 15👀

Super helpful - thank you!

Thank you so much for the information in this video. I have been looking for a way to send bulk text messages for a good while.

It’s showing me that “this action is trying to share X contacts items, which is not allowed” it goes on to say you can allow this in settings. But I’m not clear what about my settings needs to be changed to allow this as I didn’t see this notification on your video

*Here in 2022. I recommend doing “text” before “send message” so that you can easily select repeat item. Also, iPhones has a free group app in the App Store. AND lol you can hit the 3 dots to send another text to the same people. Things get out of order but don’t try to edit them. Only edit the text! Thank you! This video was so helpful!*

Great video. Works like a charm

Great tutorial indeed! Keep in mind that the phone numbers in your contact list need to have the proper format. If the message cannot be sent, it will throw an unknown error message and stop the automation.

What app do I use to make the group? I tried doing to with the select contact option but it’s saying I can’t send to that many people

Thanks !! I made a short cut similar using “ask each time”: Contacts/AET, Text/AET, Repeat/each item in contacts, Messages/send “text” to “repeat item”, Wait 3 seconds, End repeat This allows me to create new groups and text each time!

Yo I came across your vid randomly and you’re from where Im from and we’re even in the same sneaker community on facebook😭

wow this is incredible, thank you!

I tried this with a group I created and when it sent the text it included every name of the group in every text. So there was a long list of names in the text. Do you know what I might have did wrong or how to fix it? Thank you.

Very well explained. Thanks.

Exactly what I needed to learn - thank you so much!

Thank youuu for your help!!!

I’m getting a “there was a problem communicating with the app” that’s right above the send text action. Why is that? Can anyone help with troubleshooting?

Love your personality!!

Can you send over 100 msgs it say I can change it in setting but I don’t know how

Help Please: So I am getting this error message that says: this action is trying to share 86 contacts items, which are not allowed. You can allow this in settings… But I don’t know were to go in settings. Can someone help?

Has anyone found a way to text without adding to contact or group, via Mackbook air? I am able to do it via iPhone and iPad, but MacBook Air laptop only allows to message from contacts only

Broooo! haha so useful thanks homie!

how do i send a message multiple times at once ?

Thank you for your video. What changes can I make to the script to send a message to everyone at one time in the group rather than sending individual.

THANK YOU SO MUCH!

Thats insane !

Has anyone found anything with the option to Mass message without having to add number as contact or group first,

You failed to mention that if you are finding contacts in a way other then groups, such as last names, it is case sensitive. So if the last name of your contact is Mordechai, Then you need to capitalize the letter M when filtering it! It wasn’t working for me until i watched another video and they mentioned the case sensitivity as a thing

Great video, but something in my settings is not allowing me to send mass text messages. Please help me figure out what I need to change. Thank you.

Hello CJ, quick question. Thanks for this. Can I add another contact like an admin to see all individual replies coming back to me. But obviously not allowing the recipients see them

Hey thanks for the information. The only issue I am having is trying to get it to distinguish between a home number and a mobile. Sent a test and one went to my buddies landline instead of iPhone

This is such a helpful video! So clear and well-paced. Since this video was made groups have been turned into lists; when I try to set this up and hit play, the "find all contacts" step turns green and does not show the contacts in the list (group) I have selected, as it does on your video. Any idea why?

I am trying it but a message pop with you can’t share 604 contact items as it is not allowed. You can allow it in settings but Idk where to do this ? Can you please help ?

Can you send a photo with the text message this way? I want to send an invite that I saved as a photo if possible.

Thank you !

Can’t see where your mouse is going. Good videos though very helpful

Hello. Can I use this for a list of phone numbers I have? I want to use this to text clients about their orders. Or do you know any simple way of using a Mac or iPhone to send group messages? Thank you!

My goodness this is amazing. I have been using this to alert seniors when vaccine appointments are open on various websites. Works great!! I did notice that if a person has two phone numbers, it tries to text each number. One of my contacts had a mobile number and a landline number. The landline number threw an error via text message.

How do you do this with a photo attachment? I can’t get past the prompt to “send” manually.

Thank you this is a game changer for me, is it possible to add an audio file with the text messages on the app?

Awesome Works for me :)

Thanks

I know it’s been a while since you posted this video, BUT I’m still in need of how to group message (individually) with a photo… can you HELP?

Hey CJ, I keep getting a prompt saying that the is a problem running the short cut “New Shortcut 1” Mind helping me out?

Great lesson. Can I get a print out of these steps?

This is awesome...love it but the results of my test group returned ""message send failure" on several of the contacts..got a fix for that?

I followed your instructions. Very informative, but the shortcut tries to send text messages to the contact home phone also, is there a way to avoid that?

ok - you kinda rock. I was paying $1200 a month for a similar service! Can I send pics or videos?

How do you add a time/schedule the mass text? Thank you for the step-by-step.

how do we add a URL to the message where the recipient only needs to click the link.

Thank you so much for this video!! I have been trying to build this FOREVER and haven’t been successful. Is there a way to do this but to keep the message within a group and not send individually? Like if you wanted to send to different group chat and not individually to each person within a group chat?

Hey bro! Thanks for this video, it is super cool! I have a question… Is there a way to create a texting campaign in shortcuts? I tried selecting one contact, creating a text and then scheduling another text a few days later and so on to text like a custom campaign. Do you know if that is possible? I cannot figure that out yet. Thank you I appreciate your help my man! 👊

Is the background of your video being generated with a green screen? What app do you use you set up the green screen background?

It keeps saying “this action is trying to share contacts items, which is not allowed”

Can I exit Shortcuts and open other apps while running the Mass Text ? Thank you

How can you add an attachment like photo or pdf?

Thanks so much for this video but are you able to use your phone while it is sending in the background. I just messed my send up by answering one of the outgoing texts

Hey Bro, thank you for this tutorial.. But I have a problem when I run the group contact and testing it, it shows the group list of contacts but when I tried again to test it with the TEXT included it is only sending in 1 contact. I tried different group contact it is only showing 1 contact. Please help. 🙏

Hi, thank you so much for this great vid, it's extremely helpful. I am trying to send a text to 400 people but I can't get past 40 or so and it stops. Any idea why that would be? Thank you in advance for your help

its giving me an error message every time i do it

💠Fantastic amount of information

I'm desperate to be able to do this, but can't seem to do it on IOS5. It keeps saying the texts are being sent to random weird numbers and not the contacts in the group I have chosen... any help appreciated!!

Can I know what’s my problem? I follow each step as In Your video. But was using ‘select contact’. But my message was keep fail to send. Need I go click resend only can proceed to 2nd selected phone contact. But it fail to send again. Can you help me?

This is so easy to follow and so easy to use! Thankyou so much! I am wanting to send photos with my text but I seem to be missing something as when it goes to send it isn't adding the text with the photo's. I have -select photo's (images & videos, select multiple on). Then all the other steps you have . Then in Send message- I have selected variable "text photos" to repeat item. Then wait 3 seconds and end repeat. I know I have to manually send each message- annoying but totally doable! But it only has the photo in the text message and is missing my text- HELP!!! I would love your help on what I am missing!

Good tutorial, thank you. I couldn't determine what did you do to expand the list of contacts in the group. I got the first contact and the number showing 1 out of x, but I am not able to expand the list. Could you or anyone else tell me how.

Life saver

Is it possible to pull the phone numbers from a spreadsheet instead of contacts?

Anybody get a message saying that the action is trying to share 235 (null) items, which is not allowed? How do I get around this?

I don't know how to use twitter. I took 4 screen shots of the program I can send in email or text. Thanks for your help

What if i don’t have my contacts in group but in last name ?

What about numbers that are not in contacts?

Has anyone got this msg when trying to send the msg? im trying to send to 16 people and I get this msg. "This action is trying to share contacts items, which is not allowed. you can allow this in settings." thanks in advance.

How would i add a photo

hey boss can you help out with sending a mass text to my client list? i dont have them in my contacts list. only excel. message me if you can help. many blessings.

Hey... I have everything set exactly as you do... It would not send them automatically. It was popping up 1 by 1 making me send them one by one. How do you make it send to all in my contacts by itself like your was every 3 seconds? And at the 13 mark I got a phone call that stopped the process. When I went to restart it... it did not pick up where it left off. It started the entire list all over again. In the same order. The other odd thing was that the list was just random order. It did not work its way down in alphabetical order. But the biggest issue I have it that it wont send to entire list automatically. Making me do it one by one. Which defeats the purpose. How do I make it send to all automatically??? Thanks for your help in advance

Great shortcut! Is there a way to schedule a time and date when this text message goes out?

Great video that was well put together. I have a data set of over 2400 numbers and counting to be sending messages to. I have them segmented into groups of 100 contacts at a time, all with a different note in it. The issue i was running into was multiple texts being sent to one person. as well as an iMessage fail when they have an android. It will fail to send as a text unless i manually send it out. any suggestions for those issues? i switched the note to their department name... (more stable than a note??? might alleviate this issue we will see) Texts are being sent properly after first message is sent but this is still annoying, maybe a phone setting or a rendering issue with phone number in iMessage...? last issue not having to manually send a photo... i have spammed my friend with 50 pictures trying to get this done and it is not working.

How can this method be used to send photos?