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
The upcoming version of iMessage will let you unsend and edit messages for up to 15 minutes.
From The Verge ● Jul. 14, 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
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
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
But unsending and editing have more nefarious uses.
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
He said he "unsent" some of the messages having realised he should not have sent them to a former student.
From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2025
Those on the receiving end see that a message was unsent and the edit history, the company said.
From Seattle Times ● May 23, 2023
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
