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I've had similar problems with just Google Voice -- it will actually drop texts very frequently. I have to ask if the other person received my message, and they often have to resend messages. It's soooooo infuriating. And they seem to have no priority in fixing it.

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Google Voice silently drops all MMS. So any multi-recipient text or any text with an attached pic will just not get to you and the sender will think you just didn't reply.

I ported my Google Voice number out to my cell phone which is a huge pain but it did work eventually.

Occasionally I get MMS messages via my email, no idea what the conditions are for this to work. I also have recently had instances of people asking why I did not respond to the MMS they had apparently sent me.

It's only supported with some carriers, such as sprint and t-mobile.

At some point I believe they added photo messaging support by email, but you have to check + check for attachment. I had already filtered/archived all emails by default so I didn't realize this until very late in the game

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