Schedule the sending of SMS and Email from Android

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How to schedule the sending of SMS and Email messages to a certain time or day in the future from an Android phone

After talking about how to send messages programmed over time with Gmail , let's see now how you can do the same thing with the messages on your smartphone and then decide to send an SMS or email message at a specific time and day . Especially with SMS, since there is no way to program messages to be sent at a future time , a special application that works very well and is free to use becomes useful. For example, you can schedule birthday greetings at midnight and be the first one, or you can schedule sending a particular message that you already know you should send soon, but not now.

Do It Later , free to install on any Android smartphone, allows you to schedule the sending of text messages, e-mails, phone calls, Twitter status updates and personal reminders . You can choose to send it at a specific time or within a time interval, send the same message every hour, every day, every week, every month or even every year and send the same SMS or Email to several recipients (this is a premium feature), even using predefined text templates.

The app is easy to use and from the main interface you can press the + button to find the functions of sending a text message, an Email or to create a reminder, a phone call or a tweet on Twitter. It is not necessary to create an account or log in with credentials of any kind, the only thing required is to give the requested permissions depending on the chosen sending method. For example, to send text messages, the app asks permission to access the phonebook and phone messages. You can then select one or more recipients, write the message and then touch the date and time items to choose when to send the message or you can touch the menu button (the one with three horizontal dots) to select a predefined time. When finished, touch the check mark in the

If you want to do even more easily, you can choose to use one of the predefined models by touching the water drop icon (in the upper right corner of the message writing box, and select the model to use or touch the + for create a new model.

In this way it is possible to program an SMS with the Do It Later app and at least until the day this feature is included in Android, there is no simpler solution than this one.

As mentioned above, the app is free, but if you want to delete the advertisements you can tap on the golden ribbon icon in the main Do It Later window to buy the premium version without ads and with additional features.

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