How to schedule texts on Android

Google not too long ago introduced a brand new characteristic for Android telephones that allows you to schedule textual content messages to ship at a later time and date.

It will allow you to be the primary to want your good friend a contented birthday at midnight, for instance, or ship a message to somebody later earlier than you overlook what you needed to say.

It is simple to do. You simply want a cellphone operating Android 7 or newer — that model is about 5 years previous, so your cellphone might be supported — and the newest model of Google Messages. Here is what to do.

• Obtain the newest model of Google Messages (chances are you’ll have already got it in the event you do not see an replace obtainable).
• Open Google Messages in your Android cellphone and select who you wish to ship a message to.
• Create your textual content.
• Faucet and maintain the ship button (as a substitute of simply tapping it).
• A schedule menu pops up. Select while you’d prefer to ship it — both later at the moment, later tonight, tomorrow or a date and time sooner or later.
• Faucet ship.

That is it. After you’ve got despatched it, you may see a affirmation that it is a scheduled message that will not arrive to the recipient till your chosen date and time. Faucet the clock icon subsequent to the message to replace it with new textual content, to ship it instantly or to cancel it.