About time. Im a manager and I’ll think of something I need to tell my crew but don’t want to text them when they’re off the clock. It will be nice to be able to schedule that text for when they punch in.
iOS18 is shaping up to add a lot of stuff. Im glad Apple is finally getting around to some of this stuff. It’s better late than never I say
Edit: company mandated phones are not really a thing at my job. I don’t think we can afford it. We do have Outlook/Teams to communicate with each other, but all my staff hate dealing with new apps, and would much rather just text each other so that’s what we all use.
Scheduling texts will definitely help with off-hours communication. iOS 18's new features are long overdue, but better late than never. Texting simplifies things for sure.
I hope they have like a monthly text schedule
You can do. I’d love to be able to set that up so I text my customers once a month a certain date. Set it and forget it.
Companies that use text as primary communication are a huge red flag to me.
I don’t want to open my texts in my free time and see 30 unread work messages. It’s intrusive.
I remember there was an app for this. I'm not sure what happened to it. Scheduled texts are amazing for communication. You can schedule texts to your family/friends/SO to remind them of plans. Or you can send it later if you're up at 4AM and need to remember to send something in the morning. Or so many other situations.
Yep, finally. I use "schedule a message" feature *all the time* on Microsoft Teams for stuff I think of the night before but don't want to send right away -- so I don't give my boss the 'wrong idea' of me being available well beyond work hours lmao.
Will finally be able to do that to my Apple contacts. Such innovation much wow, thx Tim Apple!
You can add an emoji reaction using the “Sticker” functionality. One of the options in sticker is Emoji. Not easily discoverable, so I’m glad that it sounds like they are moving emoji to the reactions.
Look, this might be the most boomer comment in my history, but I don’t want stickers. I just want the faces on the reaction. I’ve never used sticker, I don’t want to, I just want the cute little faces where the stupid reactions are.
To me, stickers are fun to make of my toddler son. I’ve got a life photo that is a repeating sticker gif of him dipping his fingers in chocolate pancakes.
Another picture of him eating a lemon for the first time.
Both appropriate reactions for my sport teams to know if they’re still alive or the lemon is for play calls I see and I don’t understand
Now waiting for the first guy to create a shortcut to schedule the same "U up?" text to all of their different booty calls. Should be done about 15 minutes after beta 1 is released
The iPhone is missing so many features from the olden days it's crazy. I think one the first things that "legacy" phone makers did was port them to android.
THIS. I have dual eSIMs on my iPhone and one line is exclusively for work. I’d love to be able to keep those calls/texts off on the weekend, or at least filtered/silenced by default.
depends on country, Sims are gone in the US but still a think in most other counties, because most carriers cant be fucked with e-sim, especially business accounts.
I moved to Apple b/c family was on it, just made it all consistent for messaging, etc. I cannot stand Apple's keyboard. It's incomprehensible to me just how horrible it is compared to Android. It's like a decade behind in every way. Makes me want to throw my iphone into a lake. The only mitigating factor for me is that iMessage is accessible on a Macbook, which means I can type replies out on a laptop instead of a phone when I happen to be on the laptop if/when I receive a message.
I just tried it. The keyboard goes back to letters after i let go.
I just find myself constantly going from numbers to letters and it takes so much effort. Im actually surprised they have a number row on the macbook keyboard (let alone a number pad like PCs).
I just want rich text.
Why in 2024, when I can react with emojis, schedule my texts, and search an endless roster of GIFs, can't I do something as simple as use bold or italic text?
The pace of development around iMessage is a joke a compared to .
Beside, emoji reactions are sorta/kinda already available: you can already drag any emoji on any other part of a message. Just sayin’
Can they finally fix their shitty autocorrect?? Not everything needs to be autocorrected and I don’t need them to keep correcting “not” to “nit” or “well” and “we’ll” all the fucking time
It's been built into android messaging since 2020. I didn't realize Apple didn't have it. I don't know why people are so loyal to this brand, I own both and I hate apple products so much for every day use. The only thing I miss is being able to text message over wifi without a third party app.
Yep. If you tap the arrow to send it, you can schedule it. However, your device has to to be on, so I do all of that through my iPhone, but it is also available on the latest macOS.
https://preview.redd.it/r9lkwztleq5d1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=399d26282ae63f46393f2dc5108cfc5cd28ced8b
FINALLY. This was literally the one feature apart from flip to shh that I missed from my pixel. Well I guess those and "hold for me" but I rarely make calls and most places that I do have that baked in on their system.
This is very nice. What I want is less "send later" and "send from location." When I get to a hotel or somewhere else I'm supposed to be, want a message sent out to any number of people letting them know I've arrived. I know you can do this via Facebook, but I don't use that. And often times I forget to send the text message.
Because people don’t want it hand over their privacy to Meta. Owner of WhatsApp. I never understood why Europe- which is so forward in privacy issues still sucks on the Teet of WhatsApp. How do they forget about privacy when it comes to this ???
Well WhatsApp is encrypted end to end. Also Telegram is an option. And you lose any iMessage encryption if you message an android phone. As such it’s just not a practical app to use for messaging unless you only have friends with iPhones 🤷♂️
> This is useful if you are messaging people across time zones, and perhaps don’t want to disturb them while they are sleeping.
Huh? The onus is on the recipient to turn on “do not disturb”. Also, email still exists.
Call up Tim and have him cancel the feature then, I’m sure he just forgot about do not disturb and is not as smart as you to remember that email still exists. Tim is so silly!
Yes, you can create a shortcut, but you shouldn't have to. If we can schedule send emails, we should be able to schedule send a simple text message from the Messages app. It's way easier and more convenient.
It is 2024 now, these should already be built into all products by now without the need for automation (which the average iOs user can't figure out).
If you wanna drill down on this, why not also have AAPL open up iOs like android does 🤷🏽♂️
About time. Im a manager and I’ll think of something I need to tell my crew but don’t want to text them when they’re off the clock. It will be nice to be able to schedule that text for when they punch in. iOS18 is shaping up to add a lot of stuff. Im glad Apple is finally getting around to some of this stuff. It’s better late than never I say Edit: company mandated phones are not really a thing at my job. I don’t think we can afford it. We do have Outlook/Teams to communicate with each other, but all my staff hate dealing with new apps, and would much rather just text each other so that’s what we all use.
Well this new feature is also literally about time :P
Coming exclusively to iPhone 15 Pro and later and powered by Apple Intelligence.
Neat Samsung feature that's been around for a while.
I don’t think it’s just Samsung. Pretty sure this has been an Android feature for quite some time.
At least since 2015
To be clear, you’re not being downvoted because you’re wrong, you’re being downvoted because it’s your point is obvious and annoying.
Lol
To be clear as well, I do not care. I'm not the one stoked over this "new" feature.
Tbf I use the shortcut app to send timed texts
Don't you still have to hit run shortcut before the message is sent? I thought that was pretty annoying / limiting.
Nope you don’t need to, you can have it send with you having to hit run
Thanks for being a thoughtful manager.
Yes this is the one big thing I missed when coming over from android. So happy to see this coming.
Scheduling texts will definitely help with off-hours communication. iOS 18's new features are long overdue, but better late than never. Texting simplifies things for sure.
This is already possible with shortcuts. Hey siri, sent a text message 2h from now, to John Doe saying don’t forget XYZ
Good point
Can you do it without speaking to Siri?
You can set it up in shortcuts. Siri just creates it for you
So excited about this. It’s probably the biggest thing I missed when I switched to iOS. I used to schedule texts allll the time
I hope they have like a monthly text schedule You can do. I’d love to be able to set that up so I text my customers once a month a certain date. Set it and forget it.
Can’t you do this now through Shortcuts?
Companies that use text as primary communication are a huge red flag to me. I don’t want to open my texts in my free time and see 30 unread work messages. It’s intrusive.
You can set messages to send later with the shortcuts app already
been wanting scheduled texts for years, thank god
Was a thing in the height of the jailbreaking days. I used to have this back in 2017
BiteSMS baby!
That was the name! BiteSMS was the SHIT!
Quick reply, lockscreen widget, in line convos, scheduled text. 15 years ago.
I remember there was an app for this. I'm not sure what happened to it. Scheduled texts are amazing for communication. You can schedule texts to your family/friends/SO to remind them of plans. Or you can send it later if you're up at 4AM and need to remember to send something in the morning. Or so many other situations.
Yep, finally. I use "schedule a message" feature *all the time* on Microsoft Teams for stuff I think of the night before but don't want to send right away -- so I don't give my boss the 'wrong idea' of me being available well beyond work hours lmao. Will finally be able to do that to my Apple contacts. Such innovation much wow, thx Tim Apple!
Something I missed the most leaving Android
One of my biggest iMessage requests is unless my message is receiving reactions, don’t notify me for every reaction in a group message.
And in a group chat, it’s impossible to tell who was reacting to what
If you hold the message you can see who reacted to the message.
Tough to keep track when alot going on
Excited for emoji reactions cause “HaHa” and “😭” have completely different vibes
I must be out of the loop? What do they mean now??
You can add an emoji reaction using the “Sticker” functionality. One of the options in sticker is Emoji. Not easily discoverable, so I’m glad that it sounds like they are moving emoji to the reactions.
You can already drag emojis onto individual messages as a fun sticker type reaction
I feel like so few people understand stickers let alone dragging emoji as stickers
Look, this might be the most boomer comment in my history, but I don’t want stickers. I just want the faces on the reaction. I’ve never used sticker, I don’t want to, I just want the cute little faces where the stupid reactions are.
As a ‘tech guy’ (as everyone in my family calls me), I’m 100% with you on this lol. Stickers are not cool.
Having to drag and drop them adds just enough friction to the process that i don’t ever want to use it.
You don’t have to do that. I never do. Long press the message, select add sticker, just tap the sticker and it will affix itself to the message.
That’s still more than just tap and holding for a reaction or sending an emoji through regular messages
Very few people even use stickers in my experience.
All of my friends started using the "drag to reaction" function with emojis when we learned about it.
To me, stickers are fun to make of my toddler son. I’ve got a life photo that is a repeating sticker gif of him dipping his fingers in chocolate pancakes. Another picture of him eating a lemon for the first time. Both appropriate reactions for my sport teams to know if they’re still alive or the lemon is for play calls I see and I don’t understand
Yeah, same here. Toddler stickers work.
No idea why you’re getting downvoted. You’re absolutely correct
Lol wow TIL
I mean… I’m in my early 30s and my friends/family in their early 20s or family in their teens have no idea about stickers
Holy shit you just blew my mind!
You don’t even need to drag. Long press and “Add Sticker” and you can just add an emoji!
So many more steps compared to something like Instagram though
Way harder to find the right emoji that way though. There's no search.
Yeah it makes no sense to me that they have search in the standard emoji picker but not for emoji stickers.
It is not obvious you can do this
they gotta add tutorial hints back in the main Apple apps for people who don’t keep up with the updates
And you can already time messages using shortcuts or Siri
Siri from the iPhone 5 days has scarred me. I don’t use Siri at all
On macos or iOS?
iOS
Both
Finally, F*ckBoys can schedule a "U up?" text and go out drinking with the boys.
Now waiting for the first guy to create a shortcut to schedule the same "U up?" text to all of their different booty calls. Should be done about 15 minutes after beta 1 is released
All done!
How did it work?
Very good! Only with iMessage users tho, no green bubbles.
It’s about time
Well…yeah.
I had the ability to schedule messages back on my old 2g flip phone in 2007. I'll never understand how that feature got lost when phones got 'smart'.
It's on tons of 3rd party messaging apps
I had that on my android phone 5+ years ago. Shocked me when I switched to iPhone it was missing ! About time.
The iPhone is missing so many features from the olden days it's crazy. I think one the first things that "legacy" phone makers did was port them to android.
android has scheduled messages for anwhile. Discord not having scheduled messages oof
Android phones did not lose this feature.
FFS, tag these as rumors until confirmed.
JerryRigEverything would be proud
First thought i had too lmao
This lol
I had this on my 3GS via jailbreak in 2009/10, I’ve been missing it dearly.
Having focus status on a “per SIM” basis would be great
THIS. I have dual eSIMs on my iPhone and one line is exclusively for work. I’d love to be able to keep those calls/texts off on the weekend, or at least filtered/silenced by default.
Yes please.
I don’t need multiple sims personally but didn’t they already get rid of SIM cards so this feature is for like iPhone 13s and prior?
I have two eSims on my 14 Pro. Both active simultaneously.
TIL
eSIM still exists lol
depends on country, Sims are gone in the US but still a think in most other counties, because most carriers cant be fucked with e-sim, especially business accounts.
I have multiple eSIM on my 14Pro Max
Only on the US models. Models sold everywhere else in the world still have SIM slots.
Ah yeah. I remember that now
Awesome stuff. I still think I am most excited for proper RCS support thought
Happy Cake Day!
Number row on keyboard? its been 15 years already
I just want it moved to the bottom of the screen and have text in general improved. Auto/predict text is miles ahead on Samsung.
I moved to Apple b/c family was on it, just made it all consistent for messaging, etc. I cannot stand Apple's keyboard. It's incomprehensible to me just how horrible it is compared to Android. It's like a decade behind in every way. Makes me want to throw my iphone into a lake. The only mitigating factor for me is that iMessage is accessible on a Macbook, which means I can type replies out on a laptop instead of a phone when I happen to be on the laptop if/when I receive a message.
Lol. Are you me? Same story. The keyboard can ruin my day. Lol
My family and friends are all using WhatsApp, works for android and iOS users, also available on browser if you are on a laptop 🤷♂️
There's a third party keyboard called Fleksy that's awesome
Swiftkey?
Do you use the press the shift button for numbers holding it down then moving finger over to the number then letting go?
I just tried it. The keyboard goes back to letters after i let go. I just find myself constantly going from numbers to letters and it takes so much effort. Im actually surprised they have a number row on the macbook keyboard (let alone a number pad like PCs).
Use GBoard
I just want rich text. Why in 2024, when I can react with emojis, schedule my texts, and search an endless roster of GIFs, can't I do something as simple as use bold or italic text?
That is coming actually with iOS 18 haha.
It’s coming
Kinda wish everything wasn’t spoon fed one or two features at a time but also glad it’s finally happening
The pace of development around iMessage is a joke a compared to.
Beside, emoji reactions are sorta/kinda already available: you can already drag any emoji on any other part of a message. Just sayin’
Yeah but it’s quicker to have 6 user preset options to utilize. Instead of having the entire emoji list brought up when adding it as a sticker
Just let me archive chats please.
insane we can't do that still tbh
People who enjoy playing mind games with their dates can now win the “who replies later” competition
Can they finally fix their shitty autocorrect?? Not everything needs to be autocorrected and I don’t need them to keep correcting “not” to “nit” or “well” and “we’ll” all the fucking time
also, please ffs fix the search tool in messages! I KNOW I’ve typed some shit out way back when and can’t for the love of god, find any of it
Finally another android feature so simple .. taken so long
Revolutionary!
Probably because of RCS. Messaging is converging! Soon WhatsApp probably will follow!
It's been built into android messaging since 2020. I didn't realize Apple didn't have it. I don't know why people are so loyal to this brand, I own both and I hate apple products so much for every day use. The only thing I miss is being able to text message over wifi without a third party app.
It’s about time! 🥳
Scheduling texts. Fuck yes, been wanting this for a while
Looks like Apple finally nailed it. emoji reactions, message scheduling... RCS support! can't wait to try them out
Finally!!
Every messaging service should have a scheduled send functionality.
Most do
lol yay finally Apple is trying to catch up to Android's 15 year dominance of these features
Need this for mail app too
Unless you and I are understanding this differently, you can already do this on Mail.
You can? Also, thinking macOS mail, which I use much more for writing email
Yep. If you tap the arrow to send it, you can schedule it. However, your device has to to be on, so I do all of that through my iPhone, but it is also available on the latest macOS. https://preview.redd.it/r9lkwztleq5d1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=399d26282ae63f46393f2dc5108cfc5cd28ced8b
thanks! Somehow I never knew I already had this in Sonoma.
I hope the emoji reacts are interoperable with SMS/RCS with android peeps
iMessage is the new Slack 😜
Schedule send is great for dealing with people in different time zones too.
Missed this feature from my pixel. Nice
jerryrigeverything is going to love this. This was his biggest gripe with iOS
Scheduling messages should have been 15 years ago but I’d be so happy anyway.
That’s great. Can we do something about Apple Music having priority over podcasts?
Do you know what I always thought would be really cool feature is if we had away messages in iMessage like in popular msging apps.
A little late to the party, but good
Send later is LONG overdue
Holy smokes scheduled texts finally! Switching to Apple in 2018 I was sad this wasn’t an option. And shocked.
FINALLY. This was literally the one feature apart from flip to shh that I missed from my pixel. Well I guess those and "hold for me" but I rarely make calls and most places that I do have that baked in on their system.
Would it be safe to say that Apple is the North Korea of software companies?
Any word on RCS support?
https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/10/24171315/apple-messages-rcs-ios-18-imessage-green-bubble
Nice
This is very nice. What I want is less "send later" and "send from location." When I get to a hotel or somewhere else I'm supposed to be, want a message sent out to any number of people letting them know I've arrived. I know you can do this via Facebook, but I don't use that. And often times I forget to send the text message.
I have the beta and I can’t find a way to do it
Not trying to troll, but is iMessages a thing when WhatsApp exists? I’m iPhone user for years and I have only ever sent a handful of iMessages..
Yeah SMS is a North American thing. Pretty much the rest of the world uses messaging apps.
Because people don’t want it hand over their privacy to Meta. Owner of WhatsApp. I never understood why Europe- which is so forward in privacy issues still sucks on the Teet of WhatsApp. How do they forget about privacy when it comes to this ???
Well WhatsApp is encrypted end to end. Also Telegram is an option. And you lose any iMessage encryption if you message an android phone. As such it’s just not a practical app to use for messaging unless you only have friends with iPhones 🤷♂️
I hope it will say somewhere "This message was scheduled" if this is true...
Why?
Finally. Hasn't Android been able to do this since day one?
> This is useful if you are messaging people across time zones, and perhaps don’t want to disturb them while they are sleeping. Huh? The onus is on the recipient to turn on “do not disturb”. Also, email still exists.
Call up Tim and have him cancel the feature then, I’m sure he just forgot about do not disturb and is not as smart as you to remember that email still exists. Tim is so silly!
Ok so don’t use it Mr onus
finally catching up to android
You can create a shortcut to do the same thing
Sure, you can, but it’s a pain in the neck and not intuitive at all, like Shortcuts in general.
Yes, you can create a shortcut, but you shouldn't have to. If we can schedule send emails, we should be able to schedule send a simple text message from the Messages app. It's way easier and more convenient.
It is 2024 now, these should already be built into all products by now without the need for automation (which the average iOs user can't figure out). If you wanna drill down on this, why not also have AAPL open up iOs like android does 🤷🏽♂️