How to schedule text messages on your iPhone using Shortcuts

If you’re an iOS user, you might have gazed jealously at your Android-using friends and their ability to schedule SMS messages. I mean, you don’t want to disturb people in the middle of the night, but you might forget if you don’t write that message right now, right?

That snafu goes double if your job has anything to do with sending SMS, as there’s no quicker way to annoy a customer than by making their notifications ping at 3 AM. The thing is, there are no first-party messaging apps on iOS that let you schedule, well, anything.

Another first-party app, Shortcuts, comes to the rescue, but it’s a little involved so we’ll walk you through how to set it up.

Here’s how to set up message scheduling on iOS

Not the easiest solution, for sure, but at least you can schedule messages with iMessage now. Maybe Apple will add the ability to schedule messages (or email, for that matter) in a future update.

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