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Group SMS doesn't show who the message is from

When receiving a group SMS, there is no way to tell who it was from. It would be good to add some text saying who sent it.

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JH

I also continue to have this problem.  It's tough to have a group conversation via SMS since I don't know who is saying what.

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B

I'm using the chrome extension and still can't tell who sent a message in a group chat.  Am I doing something wrong?

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AY

Both actually. I don't see it in the web app, mobile app, or notification. 

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AY

Actually, it does appear in the web app, but it does NOT appear in the mobile app or chrome notifications.

Also there appears to be a bug where if someone from a group SMS sends a message to the group, the message preview shows the most recent message from the person in the GROUP instead of from the individual conversation. 

Do you mean in the notification or in the conversation itself?

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The conversation just shows everybody in the group MMS's name on each individual message. In the Android messages app, by contrast, the image of each sender as well as their name appears next to their individual messages.

Ideal behaviour would be to have the name of the sender appear over the message in both the notification and the conversation view.

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