Stranded on a mountain, he tied his phone to a drone to text for help

Basically a modern, hi-tech version of “type your message on nokia, hit send and throw it as high as you can”.

I’m curious about how they did this?

When you try to send a text/iMessage, it fails immediately, but does the phone keep trying again?

Or would they have had to put that in a delay? Just not sure how it would’ve worked.

Cuz I’ve noticed I usually have to explicitly tell iMessage to resend a failed message.

On Android it tries a few times before giving up. You could also schedule the txt to send in a minute or two to give the drone time to ascend.

“I said, ‘We need to use our smarts here,’” Ryan said in an interview with The Washington Post.'

Smart phone that is.

This is literally the plot of the 2022 movie F** (hidden to avoid spoilers).