Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Alan Browne Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: Finally iOS 18 will be able to schedule messages Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2024 17:31:09 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2024 23:31:10 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="5a52b21e0f3d95fb5d16186a9f141523"; logging-data="1949555"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+QB5Zwiu0AtAzan7p1FIbNxunVk9fDKWk=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:0sjiQydOBcs4KgXBNCiMD22KNx4= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2540 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. -- "It would be a measureless disaster if Russian barbarism overlaid the culture and independence of the ancient States of Europe." Winston Churchill