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THIS IS A WARNING. DO NOT USE THIS APP.
I’ve been using GroupMe for years, only because I have no other choice. This app is non-functional. It is incompetently designed and frustrating to use. Up until recently you could not delete messages, and even now you can’t even edit them to fix typos. It’s ability to connect to a device is pathetic, regardless of how strong your wifi or cellular data is. You can’t share videos that are more than 15 seconds long, and gifs only work half the time. It regularly glitches out. When you post a photo set, it shuffles the order of your photos. And, when you try to look through photo sets, when you get to the end of one, if you keep scrolling it will take you through the previous set in BACKWARDS. ORDER. When you try to scroll FORWARD. How asinine is that?! And almost always, if you post a large photo set, and you’ve spent 20 minutes trying to comb through to find the perfect ones to fit within the post limit (10), after you hit send, they will simply not show up in the app, and you have to try again multiple times. These are only a sampling of the problems with this app. This app is BROKEN. DO NOT DOWNLOAD IT IF YOU HAVE ANY OTHER CHOICE.Show lessLzzFzz
New features to add
This is my 3rd time trying to write a review before it forecloses on me 😡. So I typed it in my notes first to copy and paste.
Any who
My Dance Fraternity and I have been using groupme for years almost 10 years now and it’s great, however an edit feature would be great to have. The delete feature can be good and bad when it comes to us because they like deleting messages as a way of keeping people from seeing certain stuff lol. I’ve wrote this as a review before but the edit feature would be great to have for all the typos that happen. Also I agree with another reviewer that there also needs to be a pin option for pinning important messages because no one likes to continuously scroll back up through millions of messages to see certain stuff. Also a tag all feature would be great because sometimes for us people won’t get messages so we tag them so that they’ll see the messages but it’s annoying having to press each name individually because it’s so many of us. I hope you guys take these options into consideration, then I’ll be sure to leave a 5/5 😊Show lessItsKO2U
Accessibility issues
I don’t know if I simply have a glitchy download or what but this app is driving me crazy with trying to use voiceover which is a screen reader. I am blind and this app has been very difficult to navigate. What’s worse than an app that is completely inaccessible?
An app that appears to be accessible but after you have spent much time setting it up, it proves to be almost impossible to function as it should. I hardly get any notifications and when I follow a notification to the app the app immediately shuts down. I have not been able to add people to the group of volunteers I am setting up for ride requests. I had to figure out how to share a link through text message and many of the people I have invited are also having difficulty with the app. This app was suggested by several friends as a great platform for my needs and I really want it to work. I hope the team who created this app will take a look at these issues.
When I open a calendar event, voiceover reads the top and then skips to the bottom and all of the information in between is not accessible. Therefore I cannot find out who has excepted my ride request.Show lesscindyreedscott
Great app!
Hello! I love this App! It works great for community activities! I would love to see a small change for the “Calendar” portion though. I’d like to see an option to where you don’t see the “John Doe is attending/not attending” on the news feed. Instead I think it would be More beneficial if it were similar to the polls. Especially because someone can literally say attending/not attending 20 times and it spams the group chat. One more item I’d love to see is a separate tab to add documents to where they are readily available for the group. Similar to the gallery or polls that are open. Often times I create and send a google document that the group needs to see throughout the year, but they tend to get Lost in the feed. Thanks!!Show lessparrka4
Where is the contact Support?!?
I’ve used this app for the past 7 years of my life. I throughly enjoyed using it to connect with all different groups of friends regarding meet-ups, vacations, and other assortment of plans. It’s a great communicator in that sense to keep you informed with your various groups within your own life.
However, the past three years of my life, I’ve been constantly harassed by a friend who has gone a bit psychotic in the past couple of years and has been diagnosed schizophrenic and bi-polar. He will constantly create new accounts every day literally telling me “to kill myself” or “that my life has no meaning and I should just end it.” I wake up every morning to a new account sending me that same old message. I’ve tried countlessly to report the accounts or block them but the next day happens the exact same. It feels like a horrific groundhogs day effect. GroupMe support has never once responded to my feedback request or contact support requests.
It’s frustrating because I love using this app, but had to delete because I need to stop hearing hate messages from an ex-friend who won’t stop harassing me on your app.Show lessmeaghandoherty
Okay
I love this app! The only problem is the that it asked me how old I was and then said it was suspending me because I was under age! The app is rated 4+! I am 12!!!!!!!! But other than that it is alright. The only thing I would recommend adding how to send a request to invite someone to join. Some of my friends don’t have text but can get app similar to this. How am I suppose to invite them? Maybe there is a simpler way tan sending an invite through text. But I haven’t found that! One bother thing- every now and then it turns my group on silent and then I don’t look to see if I got any messages. These two problems make me frustrated! But I love how there are no adds and that no one can just suddenly start a group with you unless you are in a group with them already. So that makes it safe. I would rate this game a 3.7 star review.Show lesshgfddcjj
Hacked?? No longer trusting the app
Hey GroupMe - what’s up with the pop-ups I’m getting asking for my date of birth or I can no longer use the app? I checked it out on the web and found that it was required for security to make sure I was 18 or older so I entered it.
Then I received a “GroupMe Support” message and pop up saying I was selected for being a loyal user to receive an iPad. I was curious and tapped the link because it was within an app I trusted and wanted to see if it was legit. It said I won and asked for name and address and then to check the box agreeing to the terms and conditions which were not given in a link there. I had to scroll way down to find a tiny link. When you read the terms and conditions, they plan to charge you $19 immediately and then after 7 days, another $87 for 30 days and that they have full access to use your account information.
I think I need to close my GroupMe account and take our group elsewhere.Show lessCakelady1960
Developer Response
Thanks for the feedback. We take the safety of GroupMe users very seriously and have security measures in place based on date of birth to help protect children. You can learn more at https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/why-is-groupme-asking-for-my-birthday-4efd0132-aa71-4eee-8633-1d664acf1939 If you have a concern over a message you have received in GroupMe, please report it as per https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/how-do-i-report-abuse-in-groupme-0b825cde-a73a-4576-830d-4597289d78caStinks
This app sticks no matter what platform I use it on it does not work there are about 35 of us that use this app in various forms over a 24 hour. Seven days a week sometimes we get a message sometimes we don’t get a message sometimes it goes through 10 minutes later sometimes we don’t ever see the message it’s not any particular platform it’s not the iPad it’s not the iPhone it’s not the messaging app it’s something and I don’t know what it is and it’s very frustrating that I’ve contacted Microsoft 15,000 times and gone on Twitter for GroupMe to ask what the problem is and they keep on telling me delete the app that it’s not just me it’s 40 other people that are having the problem. I don’t know I’m done I’m aggravated I wouldn’t download this app if I was you because they don’t respond back to you I put a Microsoft thing in you can contact GroupMe you got a put a ticket in and wait like five days for a response absolute ridiculous fix the appShow lessJojo17*
direct message fail
direct messages are not showing up!!!
i’m the leader of an organizational I get a lot of direct messages,Until now I hadn’t been receiving them. I tried to figure out what the problem was, but this morning I woke up with a notification. It was a direct message, and when I clicked on it and I went into group me, it didn’t take me to the direct message. I refreshed group me went out of the app came back in restarted my phone, tried everything, and I couldn’t get to that message. Thankfully I remembered who sent it, and I went into a group and found their profile and clicked direct message, and when I clicked direct message-their message finally came up. so I did that with some other groups, and some other people in those groups, and realized I had a bunch of unread direct messages that groupme wasn’t showing me. and I can possibly do that with all the groups, because there’s just too many people, and I know that I have unread messages and it’s really really frustrating and there seems to be no way to fix itShow lesssim13227
Needs some updates.
I have been using group me for over 2 years and it is pretty good, except when you try to watch a video it glitches then takes a long tome then it finally lets you. Also i will see that i get a new group me message and it won’t let me view it. The main reason i am writing this review is because of how group me logs you out. i have been logged out multiple times and it is very hard to get back into your account. It logged you out and you can’t get back in. it won’t let me try to type in my email or password. I have been trying for almost and hour and can’t get back in. i am very disappointed because there is some very important information i need to see and i can’t get to. GroupMe please fix this problem.
My group me is hacked and i need to get in please group me fixed this problem!!!!
i am very mad and i need to get in my group me and stop sending me ads that i won something!
please group me stop doing this and fix my account!!Show lessbubblegum lifestyle
