Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Chris Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: Finally iOS 18 will be able to schedule messages Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2024 20:25:25 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2024 22:25:25 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="e12d79c1c18f3ba154413269788d323e"; logging-data="2574572"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+IZQsWTb0mWmQ+tj9fpg0mD7yj2iFU22M=" User-Agent: NewsTap/5.5 (iPhone/iPod Touch) Cancel-Lock: sha1:w/V8MlDkcNDyyuPHdlFHxCqu/F4= sha1:h/yyZxVriLWMg+k44M53nEzaByA= Bytes: 2735 Andrew wrote: > Chris wrote on Thu, 13 Jun 2024 08:35:36 -0000 (UTC) : > >> I mean, SMS is explicitly asynchronous - there's no guarantee a text will >> be delivered at any time - so the time you send something is meaningless. >> Especially with kids. > > While technically that's true, how many times have you sent an SMS/MMS > message and had it NOT arrive within seconds of you sending it? I mostly communicate via imessage or whatsapp so SMS is rare. I have had it fail, but couldn't tell you how often. >> Ooops. Wrong link. Here's the correct link to the example I just provided. >>> >> >> Does it still work if the phone is off/has no signal/in airplane mode? > > Completely outside the topic of "scheduled messages", I hike often in > backcountry that has low cellular service where my experience is that any > queued up SMS messages get sent en masse when my phone enters a cellular > service area. > > Back on the topic of scheduled messages though, based on the WSJ article You misunderstand. I was asking about *your* method. Does it work when there's no mobile signal? And if it doesn't, what happens? Do scheduled messages fail completely or is it sent next time signal is available?