- Video calls support in Calendar Events
- Twitter/X previews in chat
- Improvements to GroupMe Campus
- New user profile share with option to share to Snap
Thank you for being part of the GroupMe community #)
- Twitter/X previews in chat
- Improvements to GroupMe Campus
- New user profile share with option to share to Snap
Thank you for being part of the GroupMe community #)
- New on GroupMe Campus: Student deals. Verify your .edu email to join your campus and save money
- Share your group link to Snap to invite friends from stories
- Fixes to GroupMe Campus so you can discover school groups and meet classmates more easily
- Fix for @mentioning members in chat
Thank you for being part of the GroupMe community #)
- Meet GroupMe Campus: find the best groups, meet classmates, and more on the new campus tab made exclusively for your school.
- Campus Directory: looking for your study buddy, future roomie, or bestie? Find em on GroupMe Campus with the new directory.
- Find groups to join on your campus, nearby, or check out what's trending.
- You can now add a bio to your profile and share more about yourself!
- Video Calls now have picture-in-picture mode.
Thank you for being part of the GroupMe community #)
- Meet GroupMe Campus: find the best groups, meet classmates, and more on the new campus tab made exclusively for your school.
- Campus Directory: looking for your study buddy, future roomie, or bestie? Find em on GroupMe Campus with the new directory.
- Find groups to join on your campus, nearby, or check out what's trending.
- You can now add a bio to your profile and share more about yourself!
- Video Calls now have picture-in-picture mode.
Thank you for being part of the GroupMe community #)
- New: Group owners can now specify who can delete messages in their groups.
- New: You can now delete direct message chats. The chat and its history will clear from your chat list, and it will pop back up as a fresh chat if you receive a new message. For groups, you can leave the chat or archive it.
- Improved performance when loading chats.
- Fixed a visual issue with the default like icon.
Keep sharing your feedback to improve GroupMe. Thank you for being part of the GroupMe community #)
Here's what's new!
- Delete direct message chats and clear chat history. Chats reappear as new if new messages are received. Group chats can be left or archived.
- Delete your own messages anytime.
- Group admins can delete unwanted messages in their groups.
- Group admins can specify message deletion permissions.
- Improved photo upload quality in chats.
- Fixed bug with pinning messages in topics.
Keep sharing your feedback to improve GroupMe. Thank you for being part of our community! #)
Here's what's new!
- Delete direct message chats and clear chat history. Chats reappear as new if new messages are received. Group chats can be left or archived.
- Delete your own messages anytime.
- Group admins can delete unwanted messages in their groups.
- Group admins can specify message deletion permissions.
- Improved photo upload quality in chats.
- Fixed bug with pinning messages in topics.
Keep sharing your feedback to improve GroupMe. Thank you for being part of our community! #)
We have a number of new updates and bug fixes in this release, all based on your amazing feedback!
- Say hello to a more polished design across the app
- Check out more groups nearby in the Discover tab
- You can now unsend any group join request inside 'pending requests'
- More bug fixes and improvements
Keep sharing your feedback with us and we'll keep working to make GroupMe better each day. Thank you for being part of the GroupMe community #)
Say hello to a fresh new GroupMe update that's simpler, faster and allows you to do even more with your groups and communities.
Introducing Topics
- Topics are an all-new way to organize your chats. GroupMe supports groups up to thousands of users and now you can create topics to better keep track of different discussions. Group owners can enable topics in the group chat settings (rolling out gradually).
Say hello to a fresh new GroupMe update that's simpler, faster and allows you to do even more with your groups and communities.
Introducing Topics
- Topics are an all-new way to organize your chats. GroupMe supports groups up to thousands of users and now you can create topics to better keep track of different discussions. Group owners can enable topics in the group chat settings (rolling out gradually).
Say hello to a fresh new GroupMe update that's simpler, faster and allows you to do even more with your groups and communities.
Introducing Topics
- Topics are an all-new way to organize your chats. GroupMe supports groups up to thousands of users and now you can create topics to better keep track of different discussions. Group owners can enable topics in the group chat settings (rolling out gradually).
- New: Easily share your group or profile QR code with a refreshed QR code experience!
- New: Added a link to Italian accessibility statement.
- Fixed: Pin icon on messages updates properly when performing a pin/unpin action.
- Fixed: Hidden messages are no longer hidden in Highlights.
- New: Pin chats to the top of your conversations list to keep them within easy reach.
- New: Pin messages in groups you control to highlight them for group members.
- Fixed: Notifications are no longer shown for hidden chats.
- Fixed: Issue loading the Discover tab when location is disabled.
Note: New features will be rolled out gradually - you may not see them right away.
- Improved: Layout improvements for the Discover tab and group discoverability settings.
- Improved: The system back button takes you to the chat list first, then out of the app.
- Improved: System messages are now excluded from search results.
- Fixed: State issues when loading the Discover tab.
- Fixed: The chat tab badge and options menu flickering upon login.
- Fixed: Issue opening the group details drawer.
- Fixed: Issue viewing a group's QR code.
- Fixed: Incorrect colors in dark mode.
- Improved: Layout improvements for the Discover tab and group discoverability settings.
- Improved: The system back button takes you to the chat list first, then out of the app.
- Improved: System messages are now excluded from search results.
- Fixed: The chat tab badge and options menu flickering upon login.
- Fixed: Issue opening the group details drawer.
- Fixed: Issue viewing a group's QR code.
- Fixed: Incorrect colors in dark mode.
- Fixed: Unable to join groups in-app.
- Improved: Simplified group settings UI for easier group management.
- Improved: You can now add members to announcement groups you control.
- Improved: Updated app iconography.
- Improved: Group themes have been optimized for dark mode.
- Fixed: Resolved an issue un-muting groups.
- Fixed: Some UI elements were not visible in light mode.
- Fixed: Unintended whitespace could cause failures during login.
- Fixed: Resolved conflicts between some UI elements and the bottom navigation bar.
- Fixed: URLs containing special characters such as brackets appear correctly.
- Fixed: Hidden chats no longer count towards the unread chats / messages badge count.
- Fixed: Selected conversations in multi select mode have the proper background.
- Fixed: Resolved an issue where some media attachments would fail to be sent.
- Fixed: Resolved navigation issues when connecting to a directory or starting a directory group.
- Fixed: URLs containing special characters such as brackets appear correctly.
- Fixed: Hidden chats no longer count towards the unread chats / messages badge count.
- Fixed: Selected conversations in multi select mode have the proper background.
- Fixed: Resolved an issue where some media attachments would fail to be sent.
- Fixed: Resolved navigation issues when connecting to a directory or starting a directory group.
- New: Seamlessly switch between app features with the new bottom navigation bar!
- Improved: Consolidated all "About" screens under the Help and feedback menu.
- Fixed: Occasional crashes when registering, searching emoji, or adding a contact.
- Fixed: Updated Facebook SDK to resolve issues logging in with Facebook.
- Fixed: Chat icons, video previews, media overlays, and other UI elements were not correctly visible in the new light / dark themes.
- New: Seamlessly switch between app features with the new bottom navigation bar!
- Improved: Consolidated all "About" screens under the Help and feedback menu.
- Fixed: Occasional crashes when registering, searching emoji, or adding a contact.
- Fixed: Updated Facebook SDK to resolve issues logging in with Facebook.
- Fixed: Chat icons, video previews, media overlays, and other UI elements were not correctly visible in the new light / dark themes.
- New: No more gray mode! Revamped colors for light and dark mode are here!
- Improved: Accessibility for TalkBack, keyboard navigation, and UI elements.
- Fixed: File attachments were sometimes unable to be opened or shared.
- Fixed: Options menus in light mode don't have white text on white background.
- Fixed: You are able to set a meme image as a group photo.
- Fixed: Announcement groups do not appear in the Add to Group screen.
- Fixed: Occasional crashes when searching messages in a chat.
- New: Reach larger audiences with announcement groups. In an announcement group only admins can post, and members must use a share link to join.
- New: Set a custom mute time by selecting "Set a Time" in the mute menu.
- Improved: It's easier to report new chats. Sorry, spammers!
- Improved: Accessibility for TalkBack, keyboard navigation, and UI elements.
- Fixed: All school groups now appear in Campus Connect.
Note: New features will be rolled out gradually - you may not see them right away.
- New: Reach larger audiences with announcement groups. In an announcement group only admins can post, and members must use a share link to join.
- New: Set a custom mute time by selecting "Set a Time" in the mute menu.
- Improved: It's easier to report new chats. Sorry, spammers!
- Improved: Accessibility for TalkBack, keyboard navigation, and UI elements.
- Fixed: All school groups now appear in Campus Connect.
Note: New features will be rolled out gradually - you may not see them right away.
- New: Reach larger audiences with announcement groups. In an announcement group only admins can post, and members must use a share link to join.
- New: Set a custom mute time by selecting "Set a Time" in the mute menu.
- Improved: It's easier to report new chats. Sorry, spammers!
- Improved: Accessibility for TalkBack, keyboard navigation, and UI elements.
- Fixed: All school groups now appear in Campus Connect.
Note: New features will be rolled out gradually - you may not see them right away.
- New: You can delete contacts by swiping left or selecting "Remove Contact" from the contact card.
- New: Added a link to French accessibility statement.
- Improved: GroupMe now uses native media storage capabilities on Android 10+ devices.
- Fixed: Quoted replies with images are now correctly associated with the original message.
- Fixed: Sharing content from another app to a GroupMe DM now works as expected.
- Fixed: The Microphone permission is now correctly requested when recording a video.
- New: Group admins can now respond to group join requests directly from notifications.
- Improved: Added a link to contact support directly from the Help screen.
- Improved: Accessibility
- Increased the size of UI elements to improve interactivity.
- Provided descriptions of UI elements for screen readers.
- Fixed: Corrected the country code for Kosovo.
- Fixed: Quoted messages appear correctly when sending an image as a reply in dark mode.
- New: You can send videos as meme-able GIFs up to 15 seconds long by selecting "Send as GIF" during upload.
- New: You can delete messages you've sent for a short period of time after sending them.
- Improved: Increased maximum image upload size.
- Improved: Updated app icon for older devices.
- Improved: Optimized assets to reduce app size.
Note: new features will be rolled out gradually over the coming weeks - you may not see them right away.
- New: You can send videos as meme-able GIFs up to 15 seconds long by selecting "Send as GIF" during upload.
- New: You can delete messages you've sent for a short period of time after sending them.
- Improved: Increased maximum image upload size.
- Improved: Updated app icon for older devices.
- Improved: Optimized assets to reduce app size.
Note: new features will be rolled out gradually over the coming weeks - you may not see them right away.
- New: If you choose to, you can now report a message, group, or user as abusive by selecting the "Report a concern" option. Note: this feature will be rolled out gradually over the coming weeks - you may not see the "Report a concern" option right away.
- Improved: Adding memes to animated GIFs is now significantly faster.
- Fixed: When sending an image after replying, the image was also sent as a reply.
- Fixed: Some long-running operations would appear to fail, even though they succeeded.
- Better visibility for pending group join requests
- Fix bug where you can't send/save photos and video
- Fix bug opening documents on Android R
- Fix exporting calendar events
- New and improved group creation flow
- Fixed bug where newly sent photos can't be opened
- Move notification reliability improvements
- Fix some crashes and bugs
- You can now reply to a message!
- Looking for a little extra personalization? Set a custom like icon for your group!
- Fix crash when inserting GIFs from external keyboards
- Reliability improvements:
- Fixed some issues that prevent notifications from being delivered
- Faster, more reliable image uploads
- Fewer failures when sending / retrying messages in low networks
- Fixed bug that prevented notification sounds from being set per group
- You can now reply to a message!
- Looking for a little extra personalization? Set a custom like icon for your group!
- Reliability improvements:
- Fixed some issues that prevent notifications from being delivered
- Faster, more reliable image uploads
- Fewer failures when sending / retrying messages in low networks
- Fixed bug that prevented notification sounds from being set per group
- You can now share a link to join your Campus Connect community
- You can now publish existing groups to Campus Connect
- Fixed a few bugs with polls
- Fixed some crashes at startup
- You can now share a link to join your Campus Connect community
- You can now publish existing groups to Campus Connect
- Fixed a few bugs with polls
- Fixed some crashes at startup
Fix drawer related crash
Fixed some crashes
Introducing Campus Connect! We've made it even easier to find groups and connect with your friends.
Introducing Communities! We've made it even easier to find groups and connect with your friends.
- Themed groups
- Additional image edits and filters
Bug fixes:
- Unable to save profile
- Status bar crashes
- New snooze conversations feature
- Improve image upload reliability
- Fixes crash when opening attachments
- New Schedule Call option for Skype
The GroupMe team invites you to enjoy this update.
As always, we love hearing what you think, so please consider leaving a review! For more information, visit our support page: https://groupme.com/help
The GroupMe team invites you to enjoy this update:
- Stabilize image upload failures
- Fix various crashes
- Allow chats to load on new install
As always, we love hearing what you think, so please consider leaving a review! For more information, visit our support page: https://groupme.com/help
The GroupMe team invites you to enjoy this update:
- Local message search
- SMS Verification
- Fixed GIF loading issues
As always, we love hearing what you think, so please consider leaving a review! For more information, visit our support page: https://groupme.com/help
The GroupMe team invites you to enjoy this update:
- Registration improvements
As always, we love hearing what you think, so please consider leaving a review! For more information, visit our support page: https://groupme.com/help
The GroupMe team invites you to enjoy this update:
- Improve video upload reliability
- Re-meme for multiple image upload
- Bug fixes for screenshot uploads
As always, we love hearing what you think, so please consider leaving a review! For more information, visit our support page: https://groupme.com/help
The GroupMe team invites you to enjoy this update:
- More sharing file types
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- Improve reliability and performance when loading chats
- Improve reliability when adding users to groups
- Better dark theme support
- Fix some crashes
You can now upload 10 images with each message #)
- Improves startup performance
- Fixes issue with Media Search images not sending
- Fixes issue where new direct message conversations won't give you notifications
- Attachment tray improvements for one-handed use
- Improved performance/reliability for syncing your chats
- Notifications should display more reliably and reduce background activity
- Improved handling of GIFVs with audio
- Numerous bug fixes
As always, we love hearing what you think, so please consider leaving a review! For more information, visit our support page: https://groupme.com/help
Fixes issues during new user registration
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Fixes a crash during new user sign up
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The GroupMe team invites you to enjoy this update:
- Fixed an issue that could stop you from liking a media item after rotating your device
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- Fixed some cases where the chat list wouldn't sync
- Fixed unresponsive widget buttons
The GroupMe team invites you to enjoy this update:
- Improved behavior for unintended hyperlinks
- More reliable group member / info updates
- Improvements to live message delivery
- Fixed cases where typing indicators wouldn't send
As always, we love hearing what you think, so please consider leaving a review! For more information, visit our support page: https://groupme.com/help
Small bug fixes. Happy holidays!
- Fixes the Forgot Password feature not sending emails
- Fixes a few crashes at startup
The GroupMe team invites you to enjoy this update:
- Fixes issues with notifications
- Fixes a crash when retrying to send a previously failed message
As always, we love hearing what you think, so please consider leaving a review! For more information, visit our support page: https://groupme.com/help
The GroupMe team invites you to enjoy this update:
- You can now customize your profile pic for each group!
- We have new sign up and sign in experiences
- You'll now be able to take photos with KitKat devices
- Resolved an issue causing some Oreo devices to crash when trying to create shortcuts for groups with no avatar
As always, we love hearing what you think, so please consider leaving a review! For more information, visit our support page: https://groupme.com/help
The GroupMe team invites you to enjoy this update:
- We've got a fresh new look!
- Lots of other improvements and fixes
As always, we love hearing what you think, so please consider leaving a review! For more information, visit our support page: https://groupme.com/help
The GroupMe team invites you to enjoy this update:
- Accessibility fixes
- Localization fixes
- Improvements to hardware keyboard navigation
- Resolved an issue causing crashes when viewing the calendar event list
- Fixed a bug causing GIFs sent by iOS devices not to animate
As always, we love hearing what you think, so please consider leaving a review! For more information, visit our support page: https://groupme.com/help
- Fixes a few login bugs
- Some localization fixes
The GroupMe team invites you to enjoy this update:
- Fixed a bug that was causing the group topic to appear to stay the same after being changed
- Improved the group topic-clearing experience
- Under-the-hood improvements to registration and login
As always, we love hearing what you think, so please consider leaving a review! For more information, visit our support page: https://groupme.com/help
The GroupMe team invites you to enjoy this update:
- We now support notification channels and Android Oreo
- Fixed a bug that was causing issues with saving or sharing certain media
- You're now able to upload low-resolution videos
- Other bug fixes and improvements
As always, we love hearing what you think, so please consider leaving a review! For more information, visit our support page: https://groupme.com/help
The GroupMe team invites you to enjoy this update:
- Unicode emoji are now displayed correctly
- Fixed a bug where event start times were being converted to AM
- Fixed a bug where it was possible to create events in the past
- UI refresh for creating a GroupMe account
- Performance and stability improvements
As always, we love hearing what you think, so please consider leaving a review! For more information, visit our support page: https://groupme.com/help
The GroupMe team invites you to enjoy this update- Two-step verification gives your account an extra layer of security by requiring both your password and your phone to log in. We strongly recommend enabling this new feature.As always, we love hearing what you think, so please consider leaving a review! For more information, please visit our support page: https://groupme.com/help
- We've given the user profile page a revamp!- You can now change your password and phone number from the user profile page- Minor bug fixes
- Group owners can enlist extra help to manage their groups by appointing admins! - With great power comes great responsibility- Some small bugs were squashed and minor improvements made
- All users can now access group sharing features, not just the owner, when sharing is enabled on a group- Fixed some crashes and UI issues- Accessibility improvements for TalkBack users- Minimum supported version is now KitKat (API 19, version 4.4)- We've made some fixes to authentication for users who have had trouble logging in
With this release, we’ve enhanced group controls and made connecting with your friends even easier!- Our new Closed group mode helps you keep control over the groups you own- Group owners can view and manage former members of the group- Share your groups with your friends easily with QR codes- We’ve made it simpler to add new contacts on GroupMe. You can share a link or QR code to share your contact information, too.
- Tired of having to switch dark theme on/off by yourself? We have a new automatic setting that enables the dark theme at night time, and disables it in the morning for you like magic!- Now Android users can join in the fun of viewing and editing topics for groups you're in!- We fixed log in issues that were affecting some users- We added a bunch more accessibility improvements for TalkBack users
We're temporarily rolling back the dark mode update due to issues found on older devices. We apologize for any inconvenience caused.
Real names are now shown in addition to nicknames in the @mention list
- Bring some summer fun to your chats with image keyboards! GroupMe now supports direct image insertion from keyboards like GBoard or SwiftKey.- Improved quality & reliability when uploading images/videos- Additional improvements with TalkBack- Various bug fixes & improvements
- Using Nougat or above? Bundled notifications are now working. You can now see all of your notifications, not just the most recent, and you can expand the group to like/reply to individual messages.- Being randomly logged out? That should happen less now.- More improvements when using TalkBack
- Fixed a few issues with Polls- Additional improvements with TalkBack and accessibility- Various bug fixes and improvements
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- START CHATTING
Add anyone to a group via their phone number or email address. If they are new to GroupMe, they can start chatting over SMS immediately.
- CONTROL NOTIFICATIONS
You’re in charge! Choose when and what type of notifications you receive. Mute specific chats, or the entire app – you can even leave or end group chats.
- SAY MORE THAN WORDS
Go ahead – fall in love with our exclusive emoji.
- THE WHOLE INTERNET IN YOUR GROUP
Meme images, search and send GIFs, and see content shared from URLs displayed in the chat.
- SHARE NOW, RELIVE LATER
The gallery saves your memories. Easily explore the photos and videos shared in your group now, or later.
- LEAVE TEXTING BEHIND
With direct messages, you can use all the features you love for group chat, but one-on-one. It’s like texting, but better.
- CHAT WHEREVER YOU ARE
Including from your computer at groupme.com
Whether separated by a hallway or a hemisphere, GroupMe allows you to stay in touch with the connections that count. Get your group together.
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