Add ability to schedule messages to be sent at a later time

[ibbignerd]

Feature Request

I haven't seen any existing issues mentioning this, please feel free to close if it has already been addressed. An extremely useful feature in other texting apps is to schedule a message to be sent at a given time. The easiest place to add this would be the + button when you start typing a message and viewing your scheduled messages via the options dropdown in the top right.

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This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has not had recent activity. It will be closed if no further activity occurs. Thank you for your contributions.

[chrkuhlmann]

Any plans to implement this? Would be a very useful feature.

[tendermario]

One of the feature requests in: #4676

[dadinn]

This feature is supported on the Android app. Why is it not in the desktop one?

[tendermario]

Since this isn't a bug and this issue tracker is for bugs, continue discussion for the feature request for iOS and Windows Desktop in https://community.signalusers.org/t/scheduled-send-of-messages/2568

To answer your question dadinn: presumably limitations of time and resources. I agree it would make sense to roll out a feature for all platforms or have plan to target all platforms eventually.