"Send Later" option not appearing in Message app iOS 18

It only works iPhone to iPhone

I powered my phone off and it came back. What I just now realized I believe you can only schedule the messages for iPhone users and not droid users, which is not great or cool

It appears that this feature is only available iPhone to iPhone. Not iPhone to Android.

Send Later Messages iOS 18 doesn't work w… - Apple Community

Jbr_252 wrote:

Exactly what I did too! I send myself notes and reminders all the time. Tested it there and it was missing

I agree with Mac Jim ID on this. Use Siri to send yourself a reminder. You can set it to remind you at any time you want. The phone doesn't even have to be in your hands.

Going to your settings> messages> Messaging apps if you got a whole bunch of those on, you’re never gonna see it. I had to turn all of them off and only left a few on and then I was able to see it for iPhone recipients. It only lets you see so much. When you go back to send a text message, you’ll see “send later”!

Yes I've played around with it and it definitely only works to other iphone users. Very silly they need to fix that.

Enable sms & mms also. It’s there

Workaround that they don't want you to know about when sending later to yourself:

Add your email and phone number to a group chat and the send later function should appear.

I just hung up from speaking with Apple support, and the person I spoke with confirmed that the documentation is misleading an should use language that excludes Android devices (maybe non iOS 18 devices).

Very disappointing, and difficult to understand.

Hopefully there will be sufficient outrage among iPhone users to motivate Apple to address this issue.

Hey Lloeb, thanks for asking.

It can also be noted that you can only send later onto Apple Devices with iOS/iPadOS 18, macOS Sequoia, watchOS 11 or visionOS 2. The option may also be hidden, try swiping up on the menu or tapping “More”.

Hope this helps.

Have iPhone 13 Pro & Send Later option in iMessage & ios 18 not shown. Toggled iMessage back/forth, turned off/restarted phone & still not there. Used last week while on vacation.

Just tried again & appeared:)

laurafromchatsworth wrote:

Where is the instruction pertaining to this question?

Here you go:

Schedule a text message on iPhone to send later - Apple Support

I've turned off all focus settings still no send later option except for the one Iphone contact I have thats always had the options since this update just all my other contacts don't have the option so far this only works between iphone and iphone it will not work with iPhone to Android or an older flip phone. The only thing I've not tried is factory reseting the device I'm on iPhone 14 with ios 18.

I found a workaround on Reddit, you can download it from here https://routinehub.co/shortcut/9903/, or if you don’t click links from people you don’t know, then search Reddit, you may be able to find it? Or you can Google “smart send”