Make Sure Long Text Messages Send as One Text Instead of Several [How-To] 

My bad, I kept saying 140 characters when it's actually 160.

That is not a good idea! If you are on a annual or monthly contract for a bundle then it will comprise of texts (SMS), calls and data, it will not include MMS messages. The calls, texts(SMS) and data (within the data limit purchased) will all be regarded as (in contract) = paid for in the monthly cost you paid but not any MMS messages these will be an extra added on cost that you will incur in addition to your monthly payment. If your SMS messages are over 160 characters then they are often combined and converted into an MMS message and then your carrier will charge you extra for sending an MMS message. To avoid this with most Android phones you need to go into messages>settings>Multimedia message (MMS)> Creation Mode> Restricted. Then most modern Android phones will show you the message over 160 characters being broken up into chunks/parts of up to 160 characters (you will normally see a small counter alongside your composing window often counting down to show how many characters you have left or counting up to 160 (142/1 is 142 characters in message part 1). Your composing screen will show the whole message and the message when received is re-assembled in to a single message also. If you leave Creation Mode on "Free" you will not be warned and the messaging app will automatically change the long SMS into a MMS without notifying you. If you set Creation Mode on "Warning" then you will see a quick message flash up warning you that it is being changed to MMS as you have exceeded the 160 character limit, this allows you to adjust you message to stay under the 160 characters to prevent conversion to MMS and avoid that extra cost.

Thank you so much! People always get annoyed at me bc I send long messages, and it breaks up into 4 messages, but always send in the wrong order.

Thanks! I always wondered why my wife would ask me, "Why are your messages numbered and out of order. She really thinks Androids suck.. Lol Thanks for the tip.. Lol

Thank you so much I cannot tell you how many people have got ticked off at me because they said I was sending multiple messages when in fact I only sent one message. I never knew why it was doing it and now I know.

Updated question: I was doing this for years until a recent update took away this feature. Have you figured out a new 'hack'?

Thanks for that awesome tip. I had trouble sending a long text made up from 37 sms's. I tries what you showed and it worked. 👍

WOW!!!! ~ Thank You Ever SO Much For This GREAT Tip!!!! :) The broken/jumbled texts problem was driving me nuts!!! I rarely sign in or comment, but I just had to say THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!! (I'll do my best to not annoy my friends/family with my long-winded "novellas"!) THANX AGAIN! :)

If you turn your SMS message to MMS using the method you just described in the video won't the network provider still charge? Virgin have said that when your SMS message is converted to MMS you are charged for it. They say SMS changes to MMS at just beyond 160 characters. So to avoid charges I must remain within the 160-character limit.

Hey Gadget Hacks, now how can you receive a long text message (mms) when somebody is texting you? I usually get segments of a large text, is there a way I can fix that from my end or the person sending me the text has to fix it?

Thanks for the TIP! Very helpful for a new Android user.

this channel ID so freaking cool. Idk how you find this

This was so helpful when sending longer links to ppl. 40 years and they haven't updated the sms standard???? What's up with that???? Why is 5g a thing but I can still only send 160 letters per msg. Crazy.

When I long press, a choice to schedule texts pops up instead. Any other ideas?

Just a heads up. I just tried this and sent 1 message instead of 3 but got charged 65p instead of being free as MMS aren't part of your monthly tariff (only SMS) in UK. (maybe it's different in US). So best to check your tariff before you try this. If I did this 100 times in a month my phone bill would quadruple from £20 to £85. So be careful. It's an expensive option just to make the message more appealing to the recipient.

this already works if you have the s7, but it's a really cool hack to do

Works like a charm... just ridiculous the carriers (Verizon, for example) haven't resolved this BS yet. 🤔

I've got a problem: when someone sends a message in a group chat the message from every person comes up as a multamedia message and I have to manually download each message from each person that sent a message, and when people are constantly texting in the group chat it becomes very annoying, does anyone know how to fix this?

Is there a way to keep it as default to send mms and not sms? It gets annoying and tedious to keep converting it

Doesn't work on my Samsung Galaxy S8

I want to know why when I send my best friend a LONG message from my iPhone to her Samsung Galaxy S20 she gets it in a million parts, sometimes all mixed up

This doesn't seem to work for my phone? I have a galaxy s9 and when I hold down the send button nothing comes up at all.

So helpful, thank you.

Hi there oh, thank you for your advice however when I type over a hundred forty or 160 characters it doesn't show under the send button how many characters I've typed do you have any idea how I can fix it and see how many characters I've typed?

Thanks a lot!!!! I thought I was doing something wrong, being old school!!!😅

Thank you, this worked!

Thank you, very helpful explanation.

Anyone tell me how to send long sms without mms message i means my mobile note 3 support simple text message 160 character and i write 161 character my sms change in mms why...?

Does this work for sending a video when it says it's too long !?? Going to try it! Thanks for great hack.

TKU for your tips. I need your advice on how to Increase the size of the Space in which I type a text message (Not the font size; I have good sight). Most smartphones have very little space to display your message and one has to scroll up and down or use the arrows to check on the message before you send it; still you cannot see the whole thing even when though the message has no more than 6 lines. Please help and advice on which smart phone 2021-2022, I should by that provides me with large display to type on my message. Thank you!!

If i send a long MMS message, is it possible that the recipient might not get it or might receive an unreadable message? Just wondering

Hi, what do suggest I do when my messages don't get sent anymore when they are too long, but I have never had that problem before. The settings of my phone were reset yesterday by my carrier. It must have something to do with that. Thank you!

How can I resend a very long message that I already sent which I don't want to have to go through this all over again, is there anyway I can retrieve it and send it as one message since almost all of it is cut off? Please help me, I'm using my Android phone and need the easiest way possible to do this. Thank you.

Hello Why when i try to send a gif messages more the 300 kb from huawei p60 pro, the message that appear is “you can not insert the file because is over 300 kb ” ?

I have a galaxy S10 and this hack didn't work for me. Any other suggestions?

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I have drafts on my texts that get cut when i save the drafts just switched from tmobile to xfinity phone service never had this problem with tmobile

My reply to your long text messages: k 👍🏻

Thank you!!

We don't have this texting limitation in Canada. I found this out the hard way, by buying a phone from the states only to find out I can't send a text with more than 160 characters, it is really annoying and I've tried 3 different message aps, no effect, it is built into the design of the phone, weird. I hate having to watch how much characters I'm typing. I tried this "hack" discussed above and it didn't work, the message wouldn't send. Even if it did work, you still have to manually change it to MMS which I never had to do before, your phone would do it automatically for you.

Thanks for your help 👍🏼

What is that wallpaper? I want it!

I live in canada and text in seding is only in next town..30 miles away!

It didnt answer how to send failed multiple recipient text mesaages as text messages

plz tell me how send long sms in samsung S6

crazy !!! thanks a ton ! helpful

So how can you do this with the new S22?

what wallpaper are u using. how do i get that?

How can I resend an extra long message which I already sent and most of it cannot be read? Please help me with this? I'm using my Android phone.

hi gadgethacks.ihope you can find us away to downlaod samsung video player on nexus devices.

How to prevent text messages from not downloading. I just see a circle with a down arrow

converting to mms is silly cos the other person might not be having mobile data connection to retrieve it.

They just did this bs to the iPhone how to i fix it on the iPhone?

...Thank You...

not 140. it's 160 characters for SMS

It doesn't work in my phone... It is samsung j3 Please help me...

Thanks you so much!!

Why my classmate still sending message since april 2017, even he dont operate how he set it, that is my problem how to solve it do you have a video about it?

How do I send a video because it tells me that the file is too large

Doesn't work for my Note 8, T-Mobile carrier. I used to be able to do this w my Note 2 easily thru Verizon bc it had "add subject" in menu choices. On my Note 4 thru T-Mobile no such animal. However, if I added a picture, or typed my text w/o a contact entered (which I figured out late b4 getting my Note 8) then I could either add text under the pic & it wd go as MMS (However, I couldn't put a name in contact yet bc if I did, the doggone program wd just automatically send the pic. It took me awhile to figure that brainchild marvel. I swear, the more tech "savvy" we've become the stupider we've gotten. Think about it. W all of our high falutent, "advanced" technology, computers, etc, we still haven't figured out the pyramids, and we haven't built a plane faster than that marvelous beauty the "Habu" aka the SR-71 Blackbird. Yep. Of course how many people walked in front of cars or other stupid things bc their brains were too busy following that... oh whatever that thing was. I forgot. Pt is, I'm only 63 & can't believe how far bkwds we've gone in such a short time. We used to be tops in education, inventions, etc. But now we're busy raising gobots in our public brainwashing I mean education system. Kids graduating w absolutely no idea what Pearl Harbor means, or any history, except for the ltd amt of PC approved rewritten history. I know of a college kid, playing football. He was invited to a quinceanera in New Mexico. He said he couldn't go bc he didn't have a passport! I'm not joking. He understood it wasn't Mexico but NM, & yet... these kids can't spell or do math bc of these stupid no fail policies bc they're afraid of hurting their poor little "self-respect" or whatever self mode is the PC word of the day is. Forget about their self-esteem... that's the word I was looking for. Forget about their self-esteem when they can't get a job bc they can't even fill out a job app, let alone sign it since they no longer teach cursive [except the Verna cursive abuse these kids throw at teachers & God forbid if a teacher dare stand up to those kids to try & instill in them a sense of right & wrong. They can put on a condum... I guess good eye-hsnd coordination eh? &... oops. Sorry. My ADHD meds wore off & I'm going a mile a minute... argh.] back to phones... back to phones), or once it reached 160 chars you cd see it go the the next "page" & once you got to roughly 11-1200 total chars... or was of 11 or 12... I don't remember, but pt is it wd convert to MMS automatically. But only if you kept no name in the contact. However, I've tried everything w this dumbphone including gone to the store. I think they might have g often something to trick it but as always, once an update comes everything that was working well bottoms out. Oh well. Anyways if anyone has figured this out... I'm going to try the store again. Oh yeah. I can't use the picture trick anymore bc when u attach a pic it doesn't allow you to add text. I've tried but no go. Argh!

thanks bro 🔥

Off topic but which SWIPEApp are you using? tia

Please tell me how to send a long sms on samsung j5 2016..

I need to tell my sister about that. Her single message are often received in multi messages. But on her end...it appears normal. Also, they don't always appear in sequential order. Very annoying!!! 😞

How of type Phone Good for send faster Message

Excellent

sad, :-( It doesn't work on my phone.

Please tell me

Great info

Thank u

This works thank u so much

Like Your Tip. Im O.S. all about change!

It works!!!! 🤣😂🤣

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and then you get charged for an MMS message... i want the opposite... i want to me able to make a long message without it turning into a stupid MMS that charges me. i like when it split it up and sent it as like 3 individual texts.. how to i get this back..??

fake it didnt work

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How can I fix my phone when sending a video it says it has reached its limit please reduce video.

What's that keyboard?

Very bad 😂

Thanks, really helpful.

Thanks! Super helpful.

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