I can't believe it took this long to add italics and bold to iMessages. Pretty crucial little bit of emphasis, and could go a long way toward adding a bit of nuance to texting.
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I think it is not on by default as all android users are also in hands of second evil empire for long so ability to message iPhones directly may make them slowly adopt this way as well.
BTW does schedulling messages works under RCS?
Ok? Not everyone knows when they're going to bed and they fall asleep at different times which would be hard to gauge when they should have their DND focus mode turn on. Like me for example, I have a sleep focus mode that gets activated every night at the same time because that's the time when ideally I want to start winding down to go to sleep. But there are some nights I'm not tired enough yet to fall asleep then and I turn it off only to forget to manually turn it back on, so now I'll get all those notifications throughout the night from people in different timezones and breaking news alerts, etc.
Why not use email, when something is important and needs to be platform independent?
Scheduling a text for later will be useful for me as I start work earlier while others in the household are still 💤 so I can send any reminders etc without risking the mother of all wars by disturbing them . Did it once , it wasn’t pretty and neither were they , still traumatised 😬
Just send the message? I've never had a problem sending someone a text no matter what time it is. It's on the person on the receiving end to setup DND / a focus that disables notifications depending on what time it is / if they dont want to be disturbed at that given moment.
Why does it matter to you if you send the message at 11pm or 7am? Its texting, not a phone call.
I understand forgetting to turn your on your DND after manually turning it off but Automations can solve this problem. Also, unless you have your ringer or vibrate on, does it matter if notifications keep coming through?
I say a recent study that maybe 10% of people have their ringer on anymore. Most people live with "silent mode on" so going based off that, i dont see why it matters if notifications keep coming through or not.
Dude you are way overthinking this I don't get why you care so much that more people live life outside of focus modes and silent ringers than you apparently realize. And to your point about automation, the Send Later feature in Messages is a form of automation. If you have no use for it then fine, don't use it and just move on.
I can't ask questions to understand and learn? Why are you getting so defensive when I am asking a simple question? Try having a conversation so people can understand instead of just being so defensive.
People can live their lives outside of focus modes and silent ringers but then its on them when they get disturbed at weird hours. I dont understand why that's so hard to understand.
I never said I dont have a use for Send Later, I am just trying to understand how people are thinking its going to solve a problem that doesnt exist. I know a few people that schedule there texts but those same people "expect a response within reason" when that text goes out. It's texting, doesnt matter what time you text someone, they will respond when you can. If "you" think scheduling a text for a "more appropriate hour" / "8am" is different then just sending a text whenever, I think "you" are confused on what texting is.
I don’t know so I just checked. Keep in mind that I’m now running the iOS 18.1 Developer Beta but I don’t see the option to Send Later for either SMS or RCS users so I don’t know if it’s a bug in this Beta or if you can really only use Send Later for iMessages users. The first picture shows what I see for iMessage users and you can see the option for Send Later and the second pic is what I see (or in this case don’t see) for both SMS and RCS users.
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When is Apple going to improve the basics and stop with the BS? When I want to block 6 offensive spam txts I have to do each once individually along with clicking hide alerts individually instead of selecting all at once along with verifying what I want!
Even after that, I don’t need replies from the spammers telling me how I’ve now been unsubscribed and have to ack that too plus delete it!
Often when typing on iPhone the screen looses its place and everytime I try to scroll down to where the cursor is, it springs back up hiding what I am saying! Does that in Apple mail too on my iPhone 13 Pro.
Cursor location, can’t your techies get that fixed with almost 50 years of Apple programming expertise?
Anyway, enough with features few use or need, PLEASE fix and improve the basics...
Even after that, I don’t need replies from the spammers telling me how I’ve now been unsubscribed and have to ack that too plus delete it!
Often when typing on iPhone the screen looses its place and everytime I try to scroll down to where the cursor is, it springs back up hiding what I am saying! Does that in Apple mail too on my iPhone 13 Pro.
Cursor location, can’t your techies get that fixed with almost 50 years of Apple programming expertise?
Anyway, enough with features few use or need, PLEASE fix and improve the basics...
I think the people that don’t like this, android 18, and iPhone 16 rumored features/specs should move on to android and enjoy that experience.
Come on, now - you aren't trying to 'understand and learn'. You keep challenging others with disbelief, despite being presented with very clear and very easily understood examples of why Schedule Send is useful. That's a disingenuous form of small-minded criticism masked as curiosity.
Apple devoted development resources to a feature that it undoubtedly must have found to be useful to at least some portion of its user base. Be a little more open-minded and try it sometime; you might be surprised how often it comes in handy, and it could reshape your own habits for the better!
So, I need to schedule a message to arrive at 10 AM CST while I’m in England next week. Do I schedule for the time zone I’m sending it to (and that I’m in when scheduling it) or the time zone I’m in at the time it’s scheduled for? Anyone?
when's the last time messages cost anyone anything? that was like 20 years ago issues.
I remember last time with ATT for MMS was in 2006 when it was still Cingular wireless.
I don’t like someone messaging me after 10:00 PM unless it is urgent. It can wait till morning.
Looks like about half of the new features have actual utility. The rest are just kid stuff, or aren't implemented yet.
I still remember having to pay a monthly fee of $20 or so for unlimited SMS/MMS on AT&T though the iPhone 5, at least so 2012ish. I got tired of paying it and ended up doing an account block of SMS/MMS (send and receive) and used Google Voice for my texting and iMessage for everything else. Did that for a couple years, maybe?
SMS was originally free on Bellsouth to Cingular, and I didn't pay anything for them from 1998 until 2003ish, which is how long I kept my original plan and original phone, a Nokia 5165.
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It's end-to-end encrypted. I don't use it as I'm in the US (other than when I travel), but I would easily use it over SMS if that was the choice.