Unsend or edit a message on your Mac.

Unsend a message

1. Open Messages and select the conversation.
2. Control-click the message or attachment.
3. Choose Undo Send.

You have up to 2 minutes after sending. A note that you unsent a message shows up in both your conversation and theirs. This works for photos and files you sent too, not just text.

Edit a sent message

1. Select the conversation.
2. Control-click the message and choose Edit, or press Command-E.
3. Make your changes, then press Return.

You can edit a message up to five times within 15 minutes. It’s marked Edited, and both of you can click Edited to see earlier versions.

What you need

• iMessage. You can’t unsend or edit SMS, MMS or RCS texts, the green bubbles.
• macOS Ventura (13) or later on your Mac.
• Newer software on their end. If their device runs iOS 15.6, macOS 12 or earlier, the original message stays in their conversation, and Messages warns you they may still see it. Edits arrive as a follow-up starting “Edited to”.

Don’t see Undo Send?

The 2 minutes may be up, or it went as a green-bubble text. Either way, send a quick follow-up. If texts from your Mac aren’t going through at all, see Messages not sending on your Mac?

New to texting from a Mac? See Send a text message from your Mac. Took back an email instead? See How to unsend an email on a Mac.

Sources: Apple Messages User Guide Unsend or edit a message on Mac and Keyboard shortcuts in Messages on Mac, checked October 27, 2026.

For the people you send to every week: Sendoff

Sendoff is a Mac app that lives in the notch and sends a file by iMessage or Gmail, whichever each person uses. Drop the file, pick the person, press Send off. Your regulars, like your mom or your teammate, are ranked first, and you get 3 seconds to undo before anything leaves your Mac.

Sendoff isn’t out yet. Join the waitlist below, and tick the beta box if you want to test it first.