iPhone 12 Pro Max Auto reply text messages??

[woodynorman]

I am going to be without cell phone service for a few days this week. I have my business phone being forwarded to another number for phone calls, but I receive a lot of text messages for work and want to have an auto reply sent if someone sends me a text. I cant for the life of me figure out how to do it. It seems "do not disturb while driving" would allow me to have a custom text message auto reply, but I cant find it in Focus settings anywhere. I'm on iOS15. Only options I see are work, personal and sleep in the focus settings. Nothing about while driving.

Anyone know how I can set up an auto reply to text messages to let people know I'm out of cell phone service range? I want to auto reply a text to contact the number I have calls forwarded to.

 

[woodynorman]

Update I figured it out for the most part. I just had to add "driving" to focus. Now when thats turned on and I get a text from any saved contact, it auto replies. My only wish is that I could have the auto reply sent to EVERY text I receive from anybody, not just my contacts. I dont have every customer I do work for saved in my phone.

 

[Taz Mangus]

How to Setup Automatic Text Message Replies on iPhone

iOS does not provide native means to automate text message replies on the iPhone. You also won't find any third-party apps on the App Store to help you with that. But there will be instances when you don't want to bother replying to messages. You can then use this workaround on the iPhone's Do Not

www.switchingtomac.com

 

[woodynorman]

How to Setup Automatic Text Message Replies on iPhone

iOS does not provide native means to automate text message replies on the iPhone. You also won't find any third-party apps on the App Store to help you with that. But there will be instances when you don't want to bother replying to messages. You can then use this workaround on the iPhone's Do Not

www.switchingtomac.com

Thanks. See my 2nd post above. I just wish I could have it auto reply to every number, not just my saved contacts

 

[Taz Mangus]

Thanks. See my 2nd post above. I just wish I could have it auto reply to every number, not just my saved contacts

I posted about the same time as you. Glad you were able to figure it out.

 

[eyoungren]

Up until iOS 8, BiteSMS, which is a jailbreak tweak, had this feature natively. You could also schedule text messages to send. Of all the JB tweaks and apps that Apple chose to rip off they left this one alone and BiteSMS is long gone. Shame.

No idea what's available for jailbreak now (been out of that scene for over a year) but there's still lots of room for feature improvement with iOS.