iPad and iCloud contact groups: Buy Mail Shot Pro

When composing emails in the iPad Mail app, the app searches your contacts and displays the results as your type. It does NOT search for or display contact groups in either Gmail or iCloud.

If your contacts are synched to iCloud, you can view our contact groups through the plus sign at the right, but each address in the group has to be individually selected.

The best integrated solution, which works only for iCloud users, is to buy the app Mailshot Pro.  This app allows creation and editing of groups AND those groups are searched and selectable while you type in the address line.