OMG, You Can Un-Send a Text Message: Here's How

OMG, this will change ur life.

The setup: At a Memorial Day party, you drank another one of those innocuous-looking beach-y cocktails with a colorful umbrella and a half dozen kinds of liquor you’ve never even heard of when — through some mystery you still don’t grasp — the untoward thought that had been scrolling along your frontal lobe ended up on your smartphone screen and you hit send.

This is a disaster.

You never actually intended to break up by text, text your ex that you miss him or her, talk about your private parts in a text you thought was going to your doctor, or text anything — anything at all, but especially those ideas for reorganization — to your boss.

Too late, right?

No.

To create a message failure that blocks cell and WiFi signals from reaching your phone:

• iPhone users, swipe up from the bottom the moment you send the text and select airplane mode in the settings.
• Android users, swipe down with two fingers the moment you send and select airplane mode in the settings.

In this video, WZZM — which said success can hinge on the size of the message and how fast you can tap into airplane mode — offers the lowdown.