Schedule message to send at a later time
Often some member of our team finds themselves with a good idea or an interesting article that they want to post on MS Teams while it is fresh in their mind... at 6:00AM on a Saturday. This tends to wake people up if they keep Teams on their phone and don't have it on silent. It would be very nice to have the option to be considerate to those still in slumber and schedule a Teams message to go out at a later time. Many SMS messaging apps have this feature these days.
Jon Geller
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Victor
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Indeed. Our team is remote and very spread around different time zones. A 'send for later' email can do the trick but would be helpful to have this on Teams private chats as well. Sometimes I'd rather not clutter my colleague's inbox and send them a scheduled message right on time.
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eric
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why on earth would you do that on Teams this is an instant messenger. That would defeat the purpose. Use Outlook.
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Clint
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I use "send later" in Gmail all the time. In teams, I have to leave the chat unsent, and send myself an email to finish sending it monday morning. Gmail's send later guarantees it gets sent at the right time, but I can't use gmail for work messages. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE add send later AND show unsent chats to Teams.
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susan hausman
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It would also nice to have a way to send a message when the recipient's status becomes 'available'
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Star
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@Andrson da Silva, that workaround only applies to channel messages. There’s no “get email address" for peer-to-peer chats (1x1 or group), or non channel meeting chats, so this workaround only applies in limited cases.
Replying to a non-channel meeting in Outlook, or sending a message to all the group chat members, while allowing the delay message delivery option, won’t put that message into Teams, so it miss the point (We use the Teams IM capabilities instead of email).
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Chantal Martin
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I'd like to be able to schedule my message to be sent when a person's status becomes "Available".
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Sam
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It would also nice to have a way to send a message when the recipient's status becomes 'available'
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Anonymous
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I wish to have this + way to send a message when the recipient becomes available
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Anonymous
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Yes, a great idea. Also, as part of this the ability to find unsent messages on Teams.
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Abraham
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This feature will be amazing I have it on telegram and I use it a lot. Sometimes you remember something at 11 pm and you don't want to interrupt anybody dreams so you schedule that message for the next day and the other persons received like a fresh message. Amazing
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Anonymous
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This would be great feature to make people more productive while keeping up wiht digital wellbeing.
Much important feature. -
GT
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This is a great idea, especially the ability to delay/send messages based on the recipient's availability/status.
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JM
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I want to send a message now but not have it delivered until the recipient's status is 'available'
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Anderson da Silva
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Work around with this tutorial
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Jin
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This is duplicate. Vote here https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/33967900-schedule-message-to-send-at-a-later-time
Already a couple thousand votes
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Jin
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Urgent
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George Dedes
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Would appreciate this. Would also appreciate holding the send of a msg to deliver it as soon as recipient is off of "Do Not Disturb" status.
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calumhm
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Very good - likewise being able to delay a message until a person has (for example) stopped 'Presenting', or is no longer 'On a Call' is a great suggestion
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calumhm
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@Dennis T that idea has 28 votes and is far newer - Either one would justify it NOT being a duplicate.
Nonetheless, its a great suggestion and it could potentially be merged with this one.
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Anonymous
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This is a MUCH needed feature. I agree with an earlier person that stated that we have to go back to Outlook when we want to delay a message to send and it does interfere with the adoption of Teams within the Organization each time we push back into Outlook like that.