If I delete an SMS message en route, is there a chance the recipient still receives it?
I have iOS 5, and my question pertains to standard SMS, not iMessage.
I live in an area with a poor cell signal. I often get message send failures in SMS. Other times, it goes through but takes a long time. The only upside to this is that it gives me a chance to retract a message before I get a send confirmation. Is it safe to assume a message deleted while the progress bar is still up won't be sent? Is it safe to assume that the recipient only sees a message after the progress bar has completed?
I may have a case of texter's remorse, and it would be reassuring to know for sure.
Hello out there .... disappointed no one has replied, but I've learned something new related to my question: message send failures don't necessarily mean the message doesn't get sent.
A few days after I posted this, a friend of mine informed me that she received a truncated message from me four times. This was a long message where I had Send Failure alerts four times. Assuming it didn't go through, I hit the red exclamation point and retried each time. So, it appears that when sending text messages in an area with a very weak cellular signal, messages may go through in partial chunks, even when a send failure is alerted.
Anyone else experience this to corroborate?
And I still would like to know: does deleting an SMS before the progress bar has completed revoke the message from being sent? This is true of email, so I've assumed it's also true for text messages. But now I'm not so sure.
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