# iPhone - Can you add one person to an existing text thread?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 9, 2023, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iphone-can-you-add-one-person-to-an-existing-text-thread/988310 "2023-08-09T12:56:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2023, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iphone-can-you-add-one-person-to-an-existing-text-thread/988310/1 "2023-08-09T12:56:15Z")

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This should not be difficult but I sure cannot find the solution.

You have a two-way text conversation in progress. You want to add Aunt Tillie to it. Can you do this without creating a new group text?

Every innertube search I have conducted tells me how to add a person to an existing _ **group** _ chat. The method for doing this does not compute when I try to follow it for a two-way chat (press the “i” button in the top corner - there ain’t no i button. Press add member - there ain’t no add member).

I’m thinking that you just have to create a new text to accomplish this?

mmm

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**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2023, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iphone-can-you-add-one-person-to-an-existing-text-thread/988310/2 "2023-08-09T17:17:09Z")

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The text has to already be a group text, at least 3 (you and 2 others) in order to add or delete more people.