unsend
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Apple last year revealed the ability to edit and unsend iMessages between iPhones in a system upgrade.
From Seattle Times ● May 23, 2023
“You can’t unsend a piece of mail — the damage from this misinformation already reached voters,” Tattersfield said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2023
Apple has also adjusted the length of time you’ll have to unsend a message from 15 minutes to just two.
From The Verge ● Jul. 27, 2022
And now, with the forthcoming iOS 16 update, iPhone users will be able to edit and even unsend their texts.
From Slate ● Jun. 8, 2022
Because even if I can’t unsend the drawings, I can at least pretend like I didn’t send them in the first place.
From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman
Editing and unsending messages is great, as long as you can remember to long-press.
From The Verge ● Sep. 12, 2022
But unsending and editing have more nefarious uses.
From The Verge ● Jul. 14, 2022
With several months to go before the new operating systems officially roll out, there may still be time for Apple to make editing and unsending opt-in features, like Dodge suggests.
From The Verge ● Jul. 14, 2022
Right now, editing and unsending are only available to the vanishingly small percentage of Apple users enrolled in the public betas.
From The Verge ● Jul. 14, 2022
Apple did warn me that unsending might not work on older versions but not that my attempted edit would look so clumsy.
From The Verge ● Jul. 14, 2022
A new collection of Eve Babitz’s largely unsent correspondence, “Too L.A.,” resurrects the cult writer’s singular voice — and revelry.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
In a final, unsent letter, addressed to Maximilien Robespierre, she wrote, “speak; it is something to know one’s fate, and with a soul like mine, one is capable of envisaging it.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026
She said she came across some recently written but unsent digital GP letters awaiting authorisation in September 2017.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2023
Those on the receiving end see that a message was unsent and the edit history, the company said.
From Seattle Times ● May 23, 2023
I wrote my mother letter after letter, reading them over and ripping them up unsent, before I finally worked up the courage to tell her.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
