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I'm honestly shocked that with all the ways iphone users are supposed to live in a better world than me, they lack this simple, obvious useful ability that the lowliest SMS/MMS user has.

I loathe being forced to use Apple products because there are so many of these simple missing features.

I’m not sure how you are in any way forced to use Apple products

In America iMessage has extremely strong network effects. I read about an Android user who carried around an iPhone specifically to avoid having a green bubble with dating prospects.

My family and friends primarily use iMessage group threads as social media. There's also a lot of location sharing via Apple.

It's difficult to get most people to switch to something else and impossible to get old people to do it.

I have honestly never felt the need for this and had to click on a menu that I am ashamed to say I never thought of clicking on but yes, there it is. Scheduled send for SMS. You can even edit the time/ content right there in the UI.

Thanks!

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