There should be an option so when your on the message screen you can have a bar on the left side displaying your other contacts. There could also be an option to hide it, make it a little tab and then instead of going to the previous page when you swipe right it takes that bar out. And then you can add features like hold down on a person to start a group convo then select others. Or drag the contact to the text box to send contact info. Stuff like that.