Unsend or edit a message on Mac
You can unsend or edit recent messages, giving you the opportunity to fix a typo or pull back a message that you accidentally sent to the wrong person. Your recipient sees that you unsent a message and your edit history.
Note: To unsend or edit messages, you must be using iMessage with macOS Ventura or later, iOS 16 or later or iPadOS 16.1 or later. If your recipients have devices with earlier versions, they receive follow-up messages with the preface “Edited to” and your new message in quotation marks. SMS or MMS text messages can’t be unsent or edited.
Undo a sent message
You can unsend a recently sent message for up to two minutes after sending it.
In the Messages app
on your Mac, select a conversation.Control-click the message or attachment, then choose Undo Send.
A note confirming you unsent the message appears in both conversation transcripts: yours and your recipient’s.
If the person you’re messaging is using a device with macOS Ventura or later, iOS 16 or later or iPadOS 16.1 or later, unsending removes the message from their device. If the person you’re messaging is using a device with macOS 12 or earlier, iOS 15.6 or earlier or iPadOS 15.6 or earlier, or is using SMS, the original message remains in the conversation. When you unsend a message, you’re notified that the recipient may still see the original message in the conversation transcript.
Edit a sent message
You can edit a recently sent message up to five times within 15 minutes of sending it.
In the Messages app
on your Mac, select a conversation with the message you want to edit.Control-click the message, then choose Edit (or press Command-E).
Make any changes, then press Return.
The message is marked as Edited in the transcript.
If the person you’re messaging is using a device with macOS Ventura or later, iOS 16 or later or iPadOS 16.1 or later, the message is updated to reflect your edits on their device, and both of you can tap Edited to see previous versions of your message.
If you edit a message to someone who’s using an earlier version of macOS, iOS or iPadOS, or is using SMS, they receive a new message with your updated text, rather than an edited message.