After rolling out the RCS and categories feature to help cut through the clutter earlier this week in India, Google Messages has now started testing a new much-requested ‘message scheduling’ feature with select users.

Note: This feature is currently available to select users in the Google Messages beta update. I’m also using beta version #7.0.036 on my OnePlus Nord but the feature is not available for me just yet.

  1. Open the conversation window and type the message you want to send to a friend or family member.

This feature is likely being enabled for select users via a server-side update. If I long-press on the ‘Send’ button on my OnePlus Nord, it asks me to choose the SIM card I want to use (dual-SIM installed) to send the message. Google will have to tweak this functionality to offer the message scheduling feature to dual-SIM users in countries like India.