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
Other significant announcements include the ability to edit and "unsend" iMessages that were sent using Apple's Messages app, and the introduction of a feature Apple calls Safety Check.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 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
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
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
A Metropolitan Police bomb disposal robot destroyed a box of Labour MPs' unsent Christmas cards that had triggered a lockdown around Parliament.
From BBC ● Dec. 18, 2025
A text message recovered from the phone’s draft messages folder read “Call 911” but was unsent.
From Seattle Times ● May 22, 2024
Or perhaps he was languishing in one of the black cells beneath the Red Keep, her letter still unsent.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
