HiFutureSelf - Future Messages
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Soft morning light filtered through the curtains of Emi’s small Brooklyn apartment. At her feet, Momo stretched lazily, eyes half-closed in contentment. Emi checked her phone, smiling at the message: "You’ll find your rhythm today." A comforting whisper from her past self.
She had found HiFutureSelf by chance one rainy evening, exploring apps to soothe her restless mind. The app let her send small reminders, carefully timed for when she needed them most. Emi often forgot small things—like bringing her grocery list to Trader Joe’s, feeding Momo during busy mornings, or simply breathing calmly in the city's rush.
Now Emi set location-based reminders regularly: her grocery list appearing as she entered the market, gentle prompts to slow down as she left home. She loved leaving secret messages that surfaced when she needed reassurance.
HiFutureSelf allowed reminders to repeat, blending into her everyday life. Simple messages encouraged her to drink water throughout the day and prepared her for yoga classes every Tuesday and Thursday evening. Momo seemed happier too, noticing Emi’s newfound calm.
On her home screen, small widgets gently revealed future messages, quiet reassurances waiting patiently.
One afternoon, Emi realized she could send these future messages to her friend Kate, who often felt overwhelmed by city life. She scheduled a secret note for next week: "Everything will align soon. Trust yourself," paired with a candid photo of Kate laughing as she played with Momo on Emi's sunlit apartment floor.
As the city darkened into evening, Emi composed another message to her future self: "You’re doing just fine." She released it softly into the days ahead, trusting it would arrive precisely when needed—a quiet lifeboat on the sea of time.
more Very fun and useful, the only bad thing I could say is that sending messages to current time does not work :(
Very fun and useful, the only bad thing I could say is that sending messages to current time does not work :(
- Fixed small issue with how tips are displayed
3.1.1 15 Apr
- Fixed the invite message popup in the Messages List view.
- Fixed the UI color matching when duplicating messages and selecting a custom ringtone
3.1.0 2 Apr
- Resolving minor bug a couple people were seeing with voice notes
3.0.9 24 Mar
- Improved Voice Notes recording and sharing
- Resolved minor issues in the app
3.0.8 10 Mar
** New Feature!**
- You can now record and attach Voice Notes to your future messages!
- You can share those messages with friends (who have update to v3.0.7+ of the app)
- The Voice note messages can be secret too!
3.0.7 22 Feb
- Fixed issue where messages created through the Shortcut would not retain the default sound (Thank you Dustin!)
3.0.6 16 Feb
- The Time Capsule event is now finished! Make sure to send your 2026 Time Capsule with the golden ticket before updating
- Small bug fixes in the app
3.0.5 19 Jan
- 2026 Time Capsule is now LIVE! Tap on the golden ticket to leave a time capsule message for your future self!
- Added photo attachments to the time capsule
- Fixed a bug with the "Recent Locations" list where it wasn't fully scrollable
- Fixed attachment modal issue in iOS26 and cleaned up the design
3.0.4 15/12/2025
- Fixed a bug where pasting was not available as an option (Thank you for the note Courtney!)
3.0.3 10/11/2025
New Apple Intelligence (iOS 26) feature!
- Your iPhone/iPad will generate future messages for you using the iOS 26 local model! Just tap the new "Generate Message" button in the top right! This is the first iteration of this feature, so if you see any bugs please let me know. It's all generated locally on your device, there are no outside API calls!
- General visual cleanup in iOS 26
3.0.2 06/11/2025
- Small UI Tweaks for the iOS 26 update
3.0.1 25/09/2025
- Updated design for Liquid Glass
Gang! It's the 15 Year anniversary of HiFutureSelf! Also, we made it to version 3.0.0
3.0.0 23/09/2025
- Moved the ringtone selection to SwiftUI. This is the last one of the settings that was still in UIKit!
2.9.9 31/07/2025
- Small tweak to the main icon
- Fixed Widget Compatibility with tinted home view setting
- Added an updated icon design for tinted home view setting
2.9.8 19/07/2025
- Added new Siri / Apple Intelligence phrases to make it easier to ask Siri to send a future message with HiFutureSelf
- Small code cleanup
2.9.7 24/06/2025
- Messages List View now allows for sharing messages with attachments and matches the compose message view
- Displaying Secret Messages now has a fun (classy?) thin film overlay animation
- Increased the size of the attachments thumbnails in the Message Display view
- Fixed bug where you needed to be signed in to iCloud for all invite creation. You only need to be signed in when sharing messages with attachments
- New AppStore app description and screenshots
2.9.6 12/04/2025
- New Share Flow! Send invites to friends with an intuitive new flow.
- Send future message with attachments to friends!
** Note, only users on iOS 18+, with version 2.9.4+ (latest in the App Store) will be able to open invites with attachments **
2.9.5 26/03/2025
- Improving the image attachment functionality
- Small UI Tweaks
2.9.4 10/03/2025
*NEW* Major Upgrade!
- You can now add attachments to your future messages! I'm so excited to release this update. This feature has been in the making since the SwiftData migration 4 months ago. Now with this update, you can add images to your future messages! I'll be adding many more attachment options and based on your feedback will be improving the flow.
Give it a try! Tap the paperclip icon, then take a photo or choose photos from your library to send along with your message to the future! It even works with secret messages.
Let me know what you think! david@hifutureself.com
2.9.3 02/03/2025
I’ve had enough. You know, I haven’t been particularly happy with how my personality has been developing in the last few years. As I’m edging to my 40th birthday, I’m noticing that I’m becoming cranky, pretentious, snobby, and critical. Everything and everyone is in the way, and daily tasks are a chore to get through. I can’t imagine 40 more years of this! It’s time for a change. How would I like to lead my life? I would like to be generous and playful. I want to live life and derive joy and laughter in the daily routines. Would I be friends with me right now? No way.
My default has become melancholy and nihilism. I’m going to shift it to playful and generous (I used to be this person!)
== Story Time! (This was the breaking point) ==
I was waiting in line at the grocery store, and there was a mom ahead of me. The clerk rang everything up and gave her the total. She paused and asked where she could get a large bottle of water. Isle 3. She darts off to isle 3. This store is massive. The line is getting longer. I’m next, and completely incredulous. Everyone is annoyed and waiting. 5 minutes later she comes back empty handed. She clarifies the location of the water, and darts off again. Another 5 minutes go by, and she comes back with the water. She apologizes to me (I nod annoyed), and proceeds to count change for another 5 minutes to finish the checkout process. After she was done, I bought my shampoo and walked out of the store. I was so frustrated that this 1 minute shampoo trip turned into a 20 minute ordeal.
After a few minutes I realized the actual situation. This mom was just like my mom. We moved to this country 25 years ago, and my mom worked at Macys trying to make ends meet. She counted every dollar and every penny to make sure we always had enough. She struggled and thanks to her hard work, my sister and I were able to get on our feet. My behavior in the store suddenly was so shameful. This is not who I am, this is not who I want to be.
"What would I do if I was playful and generous?" Whenever I’m annoyed, that’s my primary question now. Whatever the answer to that question, I need to do that. In this case, the answer was obvious. If I was playful and generous, while the mom was gone, I would secretly add my shampoo to her total, pay for all of it, and leave $5 for the water for when she came back. I would smile walking away from the store knowing that I did something good for someone. It would make me feel so good. I would smile and sing songs all the way home because I behaved in a way that I want to lead my life. And I would have earned my own respect for that act. I would be friends with this guy! I want to be that guy!
I came home and realized I had to change. I was not the best version of myself. With age, I was actually becoming a worse and worse version of myself. The cycle has to be broken. This HiFutureSelf update is a step in that journey. I’ve added a handful of messages throughout the day/month to help remind me to be more playful in life.
If you go into the Message List View, tap on the “Sparkles” section (next to pending & delivered), you will see a new category for “Playful mindset”, feel free to join me and schedule the few messages that resonate with you and hopefully we can get to the other side of this and be the best versions of ourselves.
This section will evolve as I see what is working/not working and I’ll try to keep adding things to it. So we both can get to a good place.
If you have suggestions I’m totally here for it! Email me david@hifutureself.com
2.9.2 24/02/2025
- Fixed an issue that prevented the “Resend” option from working when searching Delivered messages.
- Updated the icon for the "Today" section to have a little haze during sunset
- Updated the large widget to limit the number of lines displayed to 3.
- Subtle change, but when pressing down and holding a repeat option the cell will highlight gray now. This is a custom SwiftUI view, and I'm just matching a default behavior so it feels a little more natural.
2.9.1 16/02/2025
- I visited Apple HQ this week and with help from Apple Engineers, Siri integration now works! After installing this update, launch the app and ask Siri, “Send a message with HiFutureSelf.” You’ll see a prompt to enable Siri. You can then use HiFutureSelf with Siri anytime.
- I promised myself not to touch the storage layer for a year after the SwiftData migration, but I couldn’t resist a few more tweaks!
- Fixed a bug when deleting old delivered messages. Thanks for all your feedback!
2.9.0 11/02/2025
- Remade the "Display Message" view in SwiftUI. Now when your message arrives, you'll have nice iconography for the actions. This was a necessary upgrade for a couple of additional features coming soon!
- Improved "Popup" message sizing when you hold down on a message in the message list view.
- Improved widget styling. Removed the small (unnecessary) icon and made the date larger and compatible with European styling (d/m vs m/d). This has been bothering me forever, so happy to make this change!
2.8.9 25/01/2025
- Resolved small bug relating to syncing your messages
- Fixed the width of icons in the "Resend" delivered messages popup. Updated the resend to "Tomorrow" icon
- Remove Time capsule option. Next Time Capsule will be in December 2025!
2.8.8 14/01/2025
- You can now swipe delivered messages left to right to trigger a modal to resend in 1 hour, in 4 hours, tomorrow, or next week.
- Made the swipe between compose and messages view more forgiving so it's much easier to swipe between those two views
- Fixed issue when toggling between sections (Suggested/Pending/Delivered) while in edit mode. Now the edit mode deactivates before switching sections
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On January 15th, the Time capsule button will disappear! If you haven't sent your 2025 time capsule, this is your last week to do it!
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2.8.7 07/01/2025
- Fixed small issue with how tips are displayed
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