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From: Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.mobile.android
Subject: Re: Finally iOS 18 will be able to schedule messages
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2024 22:03:08 -0000 (UTC)
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Alan Browne <singularity@blackhole.org> wrote:
> 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.
>>> 
>>> 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. 

I'd suspect the latter. 

> 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...

Yep.