Group Text‪!‬ 4+

I have been a Samsung user for years and I work in youth ministry. I contact lots of high schoolers at lots of different campuses and I use my phone and group texting ALL the time. I decided to give iPhone a try since everyone said it's so intuitive and easy. That is NOT true when creating groups and sending group texts.
What I love about this app is that I can create lists and send to as many contacts as I want. That is nice because on my Samsung I could only do batches of twenty.
However, because I don't want everyone to get each individual's response, I have to turn off group messaging in my settings. That is a pain because my friends and family also send me group messages where I want to see everyone's responses. My messaging app on my Samsung was AWESOME at this because I could toggle back and forth between "group conversation" and "individual messages" within the app, on the same page as the message, and without messing around with settings.
If this app is missing something, that would be it and it is huge for me since this is one of my main uses for my phone. No other iOS apps let me do this so maybe it is Apple's problem, but it is frustrating for me and may be a dealbreaker between Apple and me.

I am a small business owner and rely heavily on texting my contractors. I have a list of 250 broken down into 2 separate lists then those batched out into groups of 20 as recommended. Ever since IOS did an update last year - can’t remember which version off hand- this app has had numerous issues for me. For example: once I send out my group texts, I have to reset my phone to be able to send a new message to them or the message just fails in delivery. Some of my contractors will reply and they cannot get my reply unless I erase their message and reset my phone. Some I have to call because resetting doesn’t work either. While group messaging is off, some of my contractors can see other contractors replies which is no bueno! Again, I have to reset my phone. I’ve reached out to the developers and no response. So far I’ve not found any other app that can do what this one does otherwise I’d switch. The bummer is that I REALLY liked this app before the IOS updates came along. I will say that their group email app has NONE of these issues I use both but the texting is critical because it’s more immediate.

I’ve been using this app for years and I haven’t had any issues until this recent update. I have all the settings right, but now the app wants to force a mass text to be an iMessage. Even if I turn iMessage OFF it wants to send my mass text as an iMessage. I have a group of 71 people and many of them do not have iPhones. If I do send the mass text, it sends as iMessage and just doesn’t send the message to people without iPhones to force the group text instead of iMessage. PLEASE FIX THIS BUG! I love this app otherwise. It’s the only app I’ve been able to find that does mass text without complications. I’ve been sending these daily texts for 9 years up until the update. Many of my recipients don’t know each other and I even don’t know a lot of them as they’ve asked to be on my list for my daily inspiration. I need mass text feature, not Group text! Please fix!!