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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 unsend feature, meanwhile, only works iMessage to iMessage; there’s no retrieving that text you sent an Android friend.

From The Verge Sep. 12, 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

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

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

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

A text message recovered from the phone’s draft messages folder read “Call 911” but was unsent.

From Seattle Times May 22, 2024

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




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