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unsend

[uhn-send] / ʌnˈsɛnd /
VERB
to undo sending a message or e-mail
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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

The iPhone release will include new lock screen customization capabilities, the option to edit or unsend messages, and more features.

From The Verge ● Jul. 28, 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

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

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

But unsending and editing have more nefarious uses.

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

If that doesn't happen, letters end up in a consultant's document folder and remain unsent until they are signed off correctly.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 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 looked back, surprised, the unfinished text message still unsent.

From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi


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