Unsafe
If you download this app be ready to be approached and targeted by creeps trying to get pictures or by bots trying to scam you. This happened to me and reporting does nothing. Truly awful and I’ve been scarred for life. Thanks a lot..
awesome in theory and mostly good actually, but glitchy
groupme is usually my preferred group messaging app. I like the features it offers that some other apps might not have. there are a couple smaller things that I think would be nice, like seeing the “pending” responses on polls like you do on events, an option for people to rsvp to an event without joining the group, or being able to add more options to polls and more characters to event descriptions, but the actual ISSUE with the app is that it’s just so glitchy all the time. seems like there’s always some kinda of issue, messages not showing up has been a here and there issue in my experience for years, not as much lately but I just found out it happens to someone else in the chat and even just now there was something weird with a message I sent so I check the website and see it sent twice even though only the one without reactions is showing in my app. I’ll try reloading and restarting the app and it makes no difference. the biggest thing lately has been the albums. every time an album gets involved, the glitchiness magnifies by so much. when the albums first started I thought it was just because my app wasn’t up to date yet and since then I keep it up to date (also thinking eventually one of these new updates would fix it) and it’s still so glitchy
eta : 1. the albums feature in the app is so glitchy that it’s actually infuriating at times and 2. I get why it does it, but I really wish it didn’t automatically count the event host as an rsvp especially lately as the app and site have both been glitching to set your rsvp to yes after you remove it (I didn’t used to have this problem, so not sure why it’s happening now)
eta : 1. the albums feature in the app is so glitchy that it’s actually infuriating at times and 2. I get why it does it, but I really wish it didn’t automatically count the event host as an rsvp especially lately as the app and site have both been glitching to set your rsvp to yes after you remove it (I didn’t used to have this problem, so not sure why it’s happening now)
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notifications dont work
ive used groupme for years and had a persistent issue where i dont receive notifications. i constantly miss important messages and nothing i do in terms of changing the settings in the app or in my phone fixes things. please let me know if there are any solutions i am missing
Age wise
Ok app but they need to allow kids 11+ because it’s not fair that 13+ can join groups for teams but not kids
Many issues especially content
This app lacks many safeguards, and content filters. Anybody can message you and it gets really sketchy.
I accidentally logged out of my account and it says account frozen and I can’t log back in.
Help
I accidentally logged out of my account and it says account frozen and I can’t log back in.
Help
Annoying
I didn’t mess with the app for a long time because it’s the summer and my groups from school were not using it at the time. Well the app has logged me out. Because I mistakenly typed in my email wrong when I first got the app (would not let me change it) so when I try to reset my password I can’t get the email. It also won’t send me a text message instead. So now I can’t log in to my account and have lost all the groups I joined and will have to rejoin them. However the app won’t even let me make a new account with my Apple ID, Microsoft, and Google. Other than this mess the app is pretty good. 😩
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be carful.....
i was on this app for my school team and realized others from different gc's i was in could privately message me. i wanted to troll- god forbid -and some random guys kept sending me their dih pic ( which i did not ask for) but anyways gucci gang be carful who's texting you and asking personal questions about anything related to your school, what you look like, your age, etc
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No longer receiving notifications
I no longer receive any notifications even though my settings are correctly set to receive them. Prior to this, I had a couple of groups that received notifications and a couple that didn’t. Our school uses this app throughout the day which makes this a significant problem.
Stoped sms support
Forcing people to use the app. People with no data can’t be in a group anymore.
Bug - Just want to let y’all know
I’ve found a consistent bug where if I create an all day event (such as a birthday), and then I try to edit it, I get an error message saying “End date can not be less than current date”. Not sure if this is relevant, but the event is in a “Main Chat” of a group with sub threads
I hate this so much
Although its convenient for college campuses especially for dorms and clubs it’s so infuriating to deal with!! 1. Last semester group me wouldn’t even allow me to join groups for classes or study groups when I was given the link to join directly ! Someone had to manually add me so I could communicate with them. 2: when I tried to log into the app with my Microsoft account it wouldn’t let me, so then I used my phone number and it still didn’t work! Then I changed my password multiple times but somehow my phone number or school email is somehow “wrong”. And it’s fustrating because universities rely so heavily on this app. Hopefully this app will improve, or another app will become the primary use for communications, it should not be this difficult to log into an account I never logged out of! I’m only using it cause my clubs and dorms require it to keep up with communication .
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No SMS messages
Pretty much worthless now that it is not forwarding as a text message!!
stupid
doesnt support bosnian number format but the 387 is literally right there, doesnt let me make an account at all just because if the stupid format thingy
Can’t log in
I absolutely cannot login with this app. No matter how many things I tried, it will just get stuck. This is something I expected when apps first were introduced almost 20 years ago, but not in 2026.
Trying to get back in
This is so sorry that’s not let a person back in group text to sorry
Log in issue
It’s just stuck on the pin verified. But it says logging in. But I used it before and it doesn’t work
Parents should understand what they’re allowing
Parents should know that giving a child access to GroupMe means much more than allowing them into one approved group.
GroupMe lacks basic safeguards I would expect from an app widely used by minors. Parents can’t limit kids to approved groups or contacts, prevent private communication outside those groups, or meaningfully supervise their account. A private school, church, team, or activity group does not mean your child’s GroupMe access is contained there.
There are content concerns, too. GroupMe includes in-app searching for online images, GIFs, and videos. Another parent told me her son’s first exposure to explicit content occurred through GroupMe on an Android despite parental safeguards on his phone. She hadn’t realized what he could access from within the app.
Even major social-media platforms now offer teen accounts and parental supervision. It’s extremely concerning that Microsoft offers so few protections for minors on an app so commonly used by youth organizations.
Parents should understand the broader access they’re allowing before putting GroupMe on a child’s device. Our kids will only use it with direct parental oversight.
GroupMe lacks basic safeguards I would expect from an app widely used by minors. Parents can’t limit kids to approved groups or contacts, prevent private communication outside those groups, or meaningfully supervise their account. A private school, church, team, or activity group does not mean your child’s GroupMe access is contained there.
There are content concerns, too. GroupMe includes in-app searching for online images, GIFs, and videos. Another parent told me her son’s first exposure to explicit content occurred through GroupMe on an Android despite parental safeguards on his phone. She hadn’t realized what he could access from within the app.
Even major social-media platforms now offer teen accounts and parental supervision. It’s extremely concerning that Microsoft offers so few protections for minors on an app so commonly used by youth organizations.
Parents should understand the broader access they’re allowing before putting GroupMe on a child’s device. Our kids will only use it with direct parental oversight.
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No longer sends SMS text messages
As of 8/17/26, GroupMe dropped SMS support, so messages posted to a group no longer will go out as texts. Users HAVE to use the app. This messaging was the single biggest reason to use GroupMe. In our club not everyone wants to install or use another app. We could use GM to send messages and manage our group member list, but members did not have to use the app to receive the messages. With this feature gone there isn’t any real point to GroupMe, might as well just use WhatsApp like most of the world.
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Where are my text messages
I can no longer send a message via sms and it’ll be In GroupMe. Now I’m not seeing any notifications and my messages are just sitting there. Please fix
5 stars but
Is there a way to send schedule messages to a group, in an IPhone 14?
