How to text two contacts at once on android

Sending a message to others is a way of communication which is very easy and helpful. Many people can’t express their opinions openly while calling or while talking face to face. In such cases they will text the person . They will speak and elaborate clearly about their opinions to others in the form of messages. So messages are very helpful for many people to express their opinions. Also messages communicate with other persons with elaborate explanations which may lack in while communicating directly. So text messaging has a very special role in android mobiles.

Also text messages are not only useful for personal communication. It is also useful for formal communications. Many schools and offices and other formal places, they use text messages to inform updates to their clients. For example Banks, educational institutions like schools, colleges use text messaging as a tool of communication between them. So text messages play a crucial role in the android phone. Also the usage of text message apps has been designed as very easy to use. The importance of the message and communication has made the design of the app easy to use. So that it can be easily interpreted to everyone.

Many offices also use text messaging as their formal means of communication between them and its clients. So texts play an important role in corporate sectors also. Not only the corporate sector but also in all other sectors as well.

Use of group messaging

Communication is not only meant to be personal. It can be group wise also. So many people communicate with other people in group discussions and conferences also. The main aim here is to communicate clearly to everyone. This can be achieved by using a messaging app. Sending text at once to multiple contacts is one of the ways to achieve group communication.  So the android phone has made us simple ways to send messages to multiple contacts at once. This can also be achieved by using third party apps. There were many ways to send messages or text to two or  multiple contacts at once. Let us discuss each and every way with elaborate explanation and clarity by which we can achieve communication here as well. So follow through the below mentioned article to effectively know the ways to send messages to multiple contacts at once.

Ways to send message to multiple contacts at once

There were many ways to send messages to multiple contacts at once. Among them, let us discuss some of the major methods here. They are

• Selecting multiple contacts.
• Creating group.
• Usage of third party apps.

1. Selecting multiple contacts

This is one of the methods to send messages to multiple contacts. This is a bit hard and also laborious. This includes composing the text once and sending the message to each and every contact. Here you have to select each and every contact individually and send the message. So that you can send the message to a specified number of people at once. But selecting each and every individual and sending messages may be a bit time consuming. But this also works. Apart from sending the message to every person individually, let us see other methods to send a message to multiple contacts at once. But they receive the message individually. Let us see how we can achieve group communication without sending individually.

2. Creating a group

This is one of the easiest ways to achieve group communication. With this method it is possible to send messages to each and every person at once but they receive the message individually. This can be done by creating a group in the text message app itself , which is given by android. So that typing the message once and sending the message to everyone at once can be achieved. This will take very less time. Approximately fraction of seconds which is also specified as time taken to just click a send button irrespective of the number of contacts. Let us see the step by step approach to sending messages to multiple contacts at once by creating a group and sending messages to everyone. So follow the below mentioned steps carefully.

• Open a text message app in your android mobile
• Now click on Plus(+) Symbol or message symbol in down right corner of your mobile
• Now you can see To in the top left corner of your mobile. There you will get some space to type the name of the contacts you want to send a message.
• Type as many contact names as you want . And also you can type in the number of that particular person if you have not saved any contact.
• After typing the names of all the people you want to send a message. Click on Next .
• After clicking Next, you can see an option called Create group. Click on create group.
• Now you will get an option to keep a name to the group. Keep any name you want.
• So finally the group has been created. Now type in the message that you want to send to all the members in that group. You can see space to type the message in the members in that group
• After typing the message, click on the send button. So your message will be delivered to each and every individual member personally.

In this way you can send the message to multiple contacts at once. They won’t receive the message as a group message but they will receive it individually as a text message. In this way you can achieve group communication. This is the most commonly used method. This method is used by many corporate offices, banks and also many educational institutions like schools and colleges. Once created, a group can also be used again to send messages to the same persons again individually. In this way you can reduce the effort of typing the message and sending to each and every person individually. This is also categorized as one of the easiest ways.

3. Usage of third Party Apps

Group communication can be achieved by using many third party applications like WhatsApp, messenger, Telegram etc and many other applications. Using these messages can be sent to a group of members directly. These third party apps also include group or broadcast. Broadcast is a new method used in WhatsApp to achieve group communication. Though we can send the messages using text message which is one of the ways. Sending through third party apps is also one of the ways to send messages to multiple contacts at once. The only key difference is it will involve the usage of a third member between the client and sender. But the security and encryption is always built with these third party apps.

Another difference between the normal text messaging app and these third party apps is usage of internet connection. These third party apps use the internet to send messages to the receiver. But text messages don’t use the internet. As it directly involves the recharge pack. Until the recharge pack is valid for  you , you can send a message to either one member or multiple members at once. Nowadays recharge packs give the message to many people, so no need to worry. And the internet also allows us to send multiple messages at once to many people.

These are the main differences between third party apps and the normal text message apps. But the end goal is the same for both of them. Now let us know how to send messages to multiple contacts at once in third party apps. This process here was a bit different, but almost the same as the normal text message app. Let me explain to you the step by step process to achieve using third party apps. This can be done in Two ways.

1. Whatsapp group
2. Whatsapp Broadcast

1. Using WhatsApp groups

• Firstly let us decide on one of the third party apps to send messages to multiple contacts. Let us know how to do it on whatsapp.
• Open WhatsApp on your mobile.
• Now decide a group of members to whom you want to send a message. 
• Now click on the Three dots option on the top right of the app interface .
• Now select New group.
• You will get your list of contacts to add members to the group. Add every person you want to send a message.
• After that you will be asked to keep a group name to uniquely identify the group.So create the name .
• Now you will get a chat window to send messages to every person present in the group. 

This is one of the ways to achieve group communication. You can also send messages to multiple contacts at once using this method. Many people and organizations also use WhatsApp messaging a communication. They use it both formally for official purposes. Many friends use it informally to keep funny messages in the group. Let us know another method to send messages to every person individually , which can be achieved by using WhatsApp broadcast.

2. Using WhatsApp Broadcast

• Open whatsapp on your mobile.
• Now decide a group of members to whom you want to send a message. 
• Now click on the Three dots option on the top right of the app interface .
• Now select New Broadcast.
• You will get your list of contacts to add members to the Broadcast. Add every person you want to send a message.
• Now you will get a chat window to send messages to every person present in the group

In whatsapp Broadcast, you can send messages to every person in the group at once. But they will receive the message individually as one to one. This is the speciality of using whatsapp broadcasts. In this way you can send messages to every person in the group individually. This is also a formal way of communicating with every person individually at once. Whatsapp broadcasts are used for formal ways of communication in offices. Also many educational institutions also use this as a means of communication between their students.

The key difference between WhatsApp broadcast and WhatsApp group is that, WhatsApp group does not send the message in a one to one model, but WhatsApp broadcast sends message in one to one model of communication. Also there is no restriction to keep a group name in WhatsApp broadcast as in WhatsApp group. 

People can use anything according to their comfort. So by using the above mentioned methods, one can send messages to multiple people at once. In this way we can achieve group communication in less time. Not only these but you can have multiple ways to achieve group communication. You can use other apps like Telegram, messenger also. The process may change a bit according to their interface, but the key part lies the same as I have mentioned in the above methods. 

This is served as an application in formal as well as informal(among friends, relatives etc) also. Though I have mentioned each and every step clearly, some people may have some doubts or questions to ask. Let us discuss those questions in the below sections. Also go through each and every question carefully.

Frequently Asked Questions