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Have you ever wondered if you can text yourself? The answer is yes! Whether you’re trying to create a fake text message to get out of an obligation, want to text yourself something you don’t want to forget, or for a completely different reason, the process is simple. Continue reading to learn more.
- Create a new contact with your phone number (any contact name is fine).
- Open your text messaging app.
- Send a message to the contact you just created.
- Delete the original text if you’re trying to make it look like someone else sent you a message.
Save your number as a contact with a specific name. If you want it to look like you’re texting someone specific (such as a friend, parent, or sibling), save your number as a contact with that name. That way, when you create your fake text conversation, it will look like it’s coming from that person.
Text yourself to fake a conversation. If you’re sending multiple messages to create a long conversation, it might help to write the conversation down as a script.
Delete duplicate messages. By pressing and holding on the text, you can delete it (whether it’s a message from you or someone else). If you’re faking an entire text conversation, you’ll need to delete duplicate messages to make it look believable.
- For example, if you send a “Hello” message to your fake contact and you want the fake contact to say “Hi” to you, you would first send a “Hello” message and then a “Hi” message. You should have 4 texts in the conversation: two “Hello” messages and two “Hi” messages.
- To make it look like a real text conversation, you’d delete the “Hello” your fake contact sent (leaving only your own message that reads “Hello”), and you’d also delete the “Hello” you sent (leaving only your fake contact’s message reading “Hi”).
Take a screenshot or save the message for later use. Just remember that if you keep a text conversation on your phone and show the message to someone else, you won’t be able to send any additional messages in that text conversation without it becoming obvious that you faked the messages.
- If you have another number (such as another number on your phone, a Google Voice number, or a recording phone), you can send messages to yourself to create a fake text conversation that won’t have duplicates of your messages.
Text yourself things you don’t want to lose. It can be a link, a to-do list, a reminder, or really anything you don’t want to lose. Instead of writing a note down on a piece of paper, you can just text it to yourself so you can find it later.
Schedule reminder texts. One of the popular productivity tips is to schedule text messages to yourself as a reminder. This is a good alternative to an alarm or calendar reminder, especially for non-event reminders. You might want to text yourself as a reminder to make a doctor’s appointment, go to the grocery store after work, or what time you need to pick up your kids from after-school activities.
- You can schedule SMS messages on Android by long-pressing the send button and choosing a delivery time. On an iPhone, you’ll need to use Apple’s Shortcuts app as a workaround or the built-in Reminders app. You can also get third-party apps that schedule messages for you on your iPhone.
- To learn how to schedule a text, read this wikiHow.
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