Schedule a message to be sent from your iPhone by creating an automation in Apple’s Shortcuts app.
A few weeks ago, Google deployed a new function for Android users allowing them to schedule the sending of SMS. If this new feature is rather practical, iPhone owners have no official solution allowing them to schedule the sending of an SMS.
Unless you use the Shortcuts application. By creating a fairly simple automation in Apple’s dedicated application, you will be able to schedule a message to be sent, on a recurring basis. Find out how.
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1. Download Shortcuts
If you haven’t already, download the Shortcuts app on your iPhone. Offered by Apple, it allows you to create small automation scripts that will launch certain operations for you.
Download Shortcuts for iPhone (Free)

2. Create a new automation
Open the Shortcuts application, and go to the section dedicated to Automation. If you already have automation scripts, press the + button. Then press Create custom automation and select the Time of day variable.
3. Define the periodicity
To schedule the sending of your message, you must first define its date, time and frequency. In the window that opens, select Time of day, and set the time at which you want the SMS to be sent.
Then choose the frequency of this shipment: Every day, Every week, or Every month. If you plan to send a message on a specific date, choose Monthly and select the date the message should leave. Then tap Next.
4. Define your actions
You are now in front of the window allowing you to define the action that your script must perform. Tap Add action, and then in the search field, type Send message. Then select the Send a message action.
The Message action sends “your message” to “your recipient”. Press the word Message displayed in blue, and write the content of your message.
Then press the word Recipients, in blue, and choose the contact to whom the message should be sent. Then confirm by pressing OK then Next.
Then uncheck the Ask before running option, and validate your choice by pressing Do not ask. The script will then run automatically without asking for your prior authorization. Then save your script by pressing OK.
Your message sending script is ready. It will automatically send an SMS on the date indicated, with the frequency you have chosen.
If, however, you only want to send one message, do not forget, once the sending date has passed, to delete your script so that the message is not sent again the following month on the same day.
To delete your script in Shortcuts, go to the Automation tab and slide your finger over the script. You will just have to press Delete to make it disappear.