At its Worldwide Developers Conference on June 9, Apple said that iOS 26, not iOS 19, will be the name of the next iPhone operating system. The tech behemoth also revealed that iOS 26 will give your iPhone’s menus, icons, and other elements a transparent glass look. However, in September 2024, Apple launched iOS 18, which included a feature in Messages called Send Later, which allows you to plan messages to be sent at a later time.
As the name suggests, the tool allows you to schedule a message to be sent at a later time. Therefore, you may plan a message now to ensure that you don’t forget if you know someone’s birthday is approaching or if your buddy asks you to remind them of anything later.
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To plan messages to be sent minutes, hours, or days later, follow these steps.
How to arrange an SMS message
1, open messages.
2. Select the appropriate conversation.
3. Next to the text box, tap the addition (+) symbol.
4. press Send Later—To see this option, you may need to press More.
“Remember to stop by the store on your way home, please!” is the message.
Sending reminders to others now can help you remember later.
A blue bar indicating the delivery time of your message will now display above your text box, which now reads Send Later. To change the time and date, press this bar.
Even if the date wheel displays months in the future, you can only plan a message up to two weeks in advance. You cannot, then, plan to send a message in December if it is July.
To bring your keyboard back up once you’ve chosen the time and date to send your message, press the text box. After typing your message, press the “Send” button.
Once you press the send button, your message will show up in the chat window with a dotted outline and a notification that indicates when it will be sent. Additionally, there is a button labeled “Edit.”
A dropdown menu with the choices to Send Message, Edit Time, and Delete Message appears when you tap Edit. You must long-press the message itself and choose Edit, just as you would with a previously sent message, if you want to change the message’s content.
At 5 p.m., a message is being sent.
When you plan a message to be sent later, you may preview how it will appear.
To ensure you don’t forget on your friend’s special day, you might plan a greeting to be sent to them later if you know their birthday is in a week or two.