Texting

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Please see the discussions in Settings | Comm | TextingAccounts and Settings | Comm | Texting.

Understand, please, there is no guarantee a text you "Send" will ever actually be seen by your recipient.

Calling first may be preferable when the matter is urgent.

Frequently SMS texts are sent in plain text, so are not considered secure..

To use texting, see Settings | Comm | Texting, which contains enabling checkmarks for texting and provides limtations for non-emergency texts.

When Texting is enabled you can send texts to persons who have mobile phones listed within these of your groups:

1. Congregation Persons

2. HLC members

3. My Service Group (a subset of #1)

4. Service Calls

5. Other Phones

6. Favorites (if the specific favorite is in any of the above)

7. Members of a My Projects Group.

Texting is selected when you touch a cell (always empty) within the "M" (Message) column in the above groups.

Generally this column is the 2nd or 3rd in the table being displayed. If texting is off, this column does not appear.

If the Data Type allows it, touching that column will initiate a choice among sending text to that individial, to all in the group with mobile phones, or to selected ones in thre group with mobile phones.

Otherwise, nothing will happen if the row touched does not have a Mobile Phone entry.

Even so, unless the text is an emergency, texts will not be sent individuals outside of hours they have indicated are the only ones acceptable to them.

A list is made available for selecting one of numerous common messages, but you always have the option of composing your own.