Re: Finally iOS 18 will be able to schedule messages

On 2024-06-12 21:31:09 +0000, Alan Browne said:

On 2024-06-12 12:37, Enrico Papaloma wrote:

On 6/12/2024 6:50 AM, candycanearter07 wrote:

Note that Android scheduled messages works for everyone;

 Is it a useful feature?  I haven't used it, if I received a "happy
birthday" text at 00:00:01 on my birthday it would hardly feel personal ...

 I use stuff like schedule send on email sometimes, so I'm sure there's
some use for it.

 I use scheduled messages as kind of an alarm for others.
 If I need an alarm for myself, I can add an alarm to my own phone.
But as am alarm for someone else, I add a scheduled sms/mms message.
 It's especially useful when the message crosses over into time zones.

 I think it's a feature I would use but not terribly often.
 More likely to set a reminder to myself to send a message at some point in the future.  But I suppose the "fire and forget" nature of it might be useful.
 Hmm ... might be some neat pranks I could pull.  Need to test that.

I can see it being business marketing departments using scheduled text messages (e.g. a book release at 00:01), but they no doubt already use a system via computers to do that rather than on an actual mobile phone.