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
In Messages, you can also now unsend and edit a message.
From The Verge ● Sep. 12, 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
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
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
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 Freedom of Information request also found 200,000 medical letters had gone unsent due to widespread problems with NHS computer systems.
From BBC ● May 29, 2024
Those on the receiving end see that a message was unsent and the edit history, the company said.
From Seattle Times ● May 23, 2023
But now that Charles is king, Allen said that her letter would remain unsent.
From New York Times ● Sep. 16, 2022
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
