# Composing a group SMS **URL:** \ **Category:** Ask for Help\ **Created:** [April 1, 2023, 5:21pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/composing-a-group-sms/59987 "2023-04-01T17:21:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![felixhu](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/felixhu/32/53956_2.png) [@felixhu](https://community.glideapps.com/u/felixhu)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2023, 5:21pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/composing-a-group-sms/59987/1 "2023-04-01T17:21:02Z")
I’m trying to figure out a way to send a group message. Sending a SMS is trivial, there’s a specific action. However, when I try to send a message to “650-123-4567, 650-234-4567” as an example, the behavior defaults to just composing a message to the first number. This might not be anything I can do on Airtable’s side, and more to do with how Messages handles incoming requests. But curious if anyone has had luck with this! ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Hager](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/jeff_hager/32/43_2.png) [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2023, 6:04pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/composing-a-group-sms/59987/2 "2023-04-01T18:04:07Z")
To be clear, are you using some sort of service or integration to send an SMS message, or does you action just open your messaging app? If it’s the later, have you tried different delimiters, such as a semi-colon `(;)` ? It’s probably going to largely depend on the messaging app, and what it allows or doesn’t allow. ---
**Author:** ![felixhu](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/felixhu/32/53956_2.png) [@felixhu](https://community.glideapps.com/u/felixhu)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2023, 6:23pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/composing-a-group-sms/59987/3 "2023-04-01T18:23:59Z")
Just using the action “Compose SMS” native to Glide. Will try some other delimiters, but you’d think that iMessage would support that! ---
**Author:** ![felixhu](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/felixhu/32/53956_2.png) [@felixhu](https://community.glideapps.com/u/felixhu)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2023, 6:30pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/composing-a-group-sms/59987/4 "2023-04-01T18:30:53Z")
It seems like the delimiter is just a comma, which is what I used 😕 > ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Hager](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/jeff_hager/32/43_2.png) [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2023, 6:53pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/composing-a-group-sms/59987/5 "2023-04-01T18:53:21Z")
I don’t use Apple products, so I can’t verify either way, but here’s a few other forum posts related to this: > [@Compose SMS to multiple numbers?](https://community.glideapps.com/t/compose-sms-to-multiple-numbers/39480): > > I’m using a glide app on both a Mac and on IOS. I’m trying to compose a SMS message to multiple numbers, but it’s only picking up the first number. I’ve trie comma, space and both as a separator. A space simply tacks the two numbers together in the compose. I’ve seen a couple threads here that mention it but there was no resolution. I’ve done a ton of research and this is definitely a limitation of recent Apple & IOS. For anyone poking at this you can simulate this quickly in the messages app … > [@Message when compose SMS action is used](https://community.glideapps.com/t/message-when-compose-sms-action-is-used/42000): > > User reported this as coming up on their screen… any reason why? > [@Joined List Send Group SMS](https://community.glideapps.com/t/joined-list-send-group-sms/15652): > > Im attempting a work around for notifting users and the Joined list works for a Group Email but when i try it with Phone numbers it only puts the first # any thoughts on why Im using IOS ---
**Author:** ![bfbraunlich](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/bfbraunlich/32/72791_2.png) [@bfbraunlich](https://community.glideapps.com/u/bfbraunlich)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2024, 9:32pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/composing-a-group-sms/59987/6 "2024-04-05T21:32:10Z")
I actually just figured this out! You need to create a joined list column with the phone numbers you want for a given text, with the numbers separated simply by a comma (no spaces). Then create a template column where you add in the following url to the start: `sms://open?addresses=`. I noticed that the number needs to be formatted XXX-XXX-XXXX; without the dashes it doesn’t work. (not sure if it handles parentheses or country codes). So the data in your column would look like `sms://open?addresses=555-555-1234,555-555-5678,555-555-9012`. Then in your button, create an Open Link action on the button, and the link should be that sms://open?addresses=etc column. This works in iOS. I wound up creating a second button for Android that uses the Compose SMS action pulling just from the joined list (without the sms::// url). Not sure how (or if it’s possible) to combine the buttons and make them conditional on the user’s device; I’m assuming not possible. ---
**Author:** ![GTSeTraining](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/gtsetraining/32/6235_2.png) [@GTSeTraining](https://community.glideapps.com/u/GTSeTraining)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2024, 1:42pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/composing-a-group-sms/59987/7 "2024-07-02T13:42:44Z")
Thanks for this solution! I was wondering how you would add a message to this open link? ---
**Author:** ![GTSeTraining](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/gtsetraining/32/6235_2.png) [@GTSeTraining](https://community.glideapps.com/u/GTSeTraining)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2024, 1:47pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/composing-a-group-sms/59987/8 "2024-07-02T13:47:26Z")
nevermind, figured it out! just needed to add ?&body=[message] ---
**Author:** ![james](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/james/32/71213_2.png) [@james](https://community.glideapps.com/u/james)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2024, 11:59am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/composing-a-group-sms/59987/9 "2024-11-07T11:59:03Z")
This seems to work a treat. Cheers! ---
**Author:** ![TXOKO\_PREMIA](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/txoko_premia/32/78740_2.png) [@TXOKO\_PREMIA](https://community.glideapps.com/u/TXOKO_PREMIA)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2025, 4:30pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/composing-a-group-sms/59987/10 "2025-03-04T16:30:00Z")
Buenas comunidad, es posible agregar el asunto al igual que se agrega el BODY[message]? ---
**Author:** ![ThinhDinh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/thinhdinh/32/49_2.png) [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2025, 11:28pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/composing-a-group-sms/59987/11 "2025-03-04T23:28:31Z")
¿Te refieres a añadir un asunto a un SMS? ---
**Author:** ![mrt224](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/mrt224/32/490_2.png) [@mrt224](https://community.glideapps.com/u/mrt224)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2025, 4:42am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/composing-a-group-sms/59987/12 "2025-04-26T04:42:34Z")
is this sms://open?addresses= still working for you? ---
**Author:** ![ThinhDinh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/thinhdinh/32/49_2.png) [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2025, 12:38am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/composing-a-group-sms/59987/13 "2025-04-27T00:38:12Z")
I just tested. It works on both iOS and MacOS. ---
**Author:** ![mrt224](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/mrt224/32/490_2.png) [@mrt224](https://community.glideapps.com/u/mrt224)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2025, 1:00am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/composing-a-group-sms/59987/14 "2025-04-27T01:00:13Z")
I had several clients using their app tbis weekend tell me they could not get it to work ---
**Author:** ![ThinhDinh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/thinhdinh/32/49_2.png) [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2025, 2:00am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/composing-a-group-sms/59987/15 "2025-04-27T02:00:18Z")
Ask them what version of iOS/MacOS they are using and see if they can update and try to reproduce the issue, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![mrt224](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/mrt224/32/490_2.png) [@mrt224](https://community.glideapps.com/u/mrt224)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2025, 2:45am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/composing-a-group-sms/59987/16 "2025-04-27T02:45:00Z")
Will do. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![mrt224](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/mrt224/32/490_2.png) [@mrt224](https://community.glideapps.com/u/mrt224)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2025, 2:46am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/composing-a-group-sms/59987/17 "2025-04-27T02:46:52Z")
Do u know why in the AI component if u make a button link it will not work?