Originally Posted by plantsower
I have the same question, but obviously the technology depends on holding the message on the Apple Server before sending it along to the recipient. My guess is: Apple feels 10 seconds is the maximum delay senders will tolerate, and it does provide a window, albeit a narrow window, of time to cancel or edit the text.
"How about "Are you sure you want to send this?" Then we can rethink it or give us a choice of how long we want to think about it. Oh well. [/quote]

The next iOS upgrade will have a texting feature where you can "take back" the text you just sent or edit it; see here and elsewhere on the Internet. Apparently there will be time limitations on those, like after 15 minutes you can't cancel your text message.

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