Why can’t you unsend a text?
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Almost everything these days is stored on a remote server and accessed through your device.
With texting, and with old email systems, once the message is delivered, it’s deleted from the server that hosted it. This means the ONLY PLACE where that message continues to exist, aside from the copy on the sender’s side, is on the recipient’s device.
When you “unsend” a message from a chat service, you are leveraging the fact that the message only exists in a shared location that you, the sender, can remove things from. For texts, no such location exists, so the message cannot be unsent.
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