Re: Finally iOS 18 will be able to schedule messages

On 2024-06-12 17:51, Chris wrote:

Alan Browne <singularity@blackhole.org> wrote:

in the future.  But I suppose the "fire and forget" nature of it might
be useful.
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Hmm ... might be some neat pranks I could pull.  Need to test that.

 I guess it depends on how the messages are "cached". If they're only stored
on your phone and then your phone is off or in airplane mode at the
scheduled time, then that is not very useful.
 I regularly use schedule send for emails for when I'm working in the
evenings. Not sure it's something I'll use often for texts.

Valid point that I'd put as almost edge case.
But it does make me wonder if the scheduled message is stored and sent from the (say) phone, or if it is stored and sent from an Apple server. Not sure if the keynote made that clear.
Easy enough to test.  Send a delayed text, then turn off the phone for the time that the message should be sent...
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