Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!panix!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!diablo1.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Andrew Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: Finally iOS 18 will be able to schedule messages Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2024 18:06:12 -0000 (UTC) Organization: BWH Usenet Archive (https://usenet.blueworldhosting.com) Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2024 18:06:12 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com; logging-data="26094"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blueworldhosting.com" Cancel-Lock: sha1:ce/VLxU4JrSWdxU6SQRTnpU5nOM= sha256:iT9qdUSYoauQDPsG504RcuUtAhSBTjfT6KeAdddFejk= sha1:oQtVoFC+KbzpJJoeoEEuboUofS8= sha256:50TYQeRMc6NYo4wQVGpE/BRxI4NckePFdNyboYm0eHs= X-Newsreader: PiaoHong.Usenet.Client.Free:1.65 Bytes: 3565 Lines: 42 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? But, in reality, the problem with Apple's scheduled messaging implementation is far worse than just the inherent delay in SMS/MMS because it doesn't apparently even *work* outside the walled garden anyway. At least that's what this cite from the WSJ rather clearly says: "*This only works with iMessage, so only with fellow Apple users*." >> 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 above saying it doesn't actually work in the real world (surprise!), I suspect Apple isn't using the SMS/MMS system to send those scheduled messages (since the walled garden isn't even close to the real world). Given logging into Apple's walled garden is apparently required for scheduled messages to work, we can't answer your question until we find out WHERE the Apple scheduled messages are scheduled and eventually sent from. *After logging into Apple's walled garden servers...* *Are the scheduled messages kept on and sent from Apple's servers?* I don't know. But I doubt any of the Apple religious zealots will know either, as they only know what Apple has advertised in glossy marketing for herd animals.