All you need to know is your recipient’s phone number and their carrier. Sending a text message via email is simple. Here’s a quick preview of the different methods and setup requirements. We’ll cover a number of ways individuals and businesses can text from their computers. Do you want to send 1:1 texts to your friends from your computer? Are you a business looking for a one-to-many short message service (SMS) solution? Your use case will determine the method that you use to text from your computer, so think about your goals when looking for a solution. As an individual, it’s convenient to text from your computer, especially if you’re like me and frequently misplace your cell phone.
Update October 20th, 2021, 1:30PM ET: Updated to correct minor language changes in the menus.Whether you're looking to send text messages to update your customers on their order or you want to confirm the time of your dinner date, it’s helpful to be able to text from your computer rather than your phone.įrom a business standpoint, it simply isn’t possible to text all of your customers because you can’t send text messages at scale using your personal phone. Update October 5th, 2020, 5:05PM ET: This article was originally published on June 19th, 2018, and has been updated to include minor changes made to menus. You can either use the attachments icon - to the right of emoji and stickers - or just drag and drop media into the conversation window to send an MMS.
Sending a photo from Android Messages on the web is dead simple. Drag media into the Android Messages conversation So if your battery dies or if your phone shuts off for any reason, you won’t be able to send any texts from your computer. Keep your phone powered onĪndroid Messages on the web can’t work independently of your smartphone. On the web app, you’ll find “Turn on dark theme” in the menu that you get after clicking on the three-dot icon to the right of “Messages. If you want to enable the Messages dark theme on mobile, tap the same icon with three vertical dots and looking for “Choose theme.” You can go with light, dark, or the system default. There’s a dark mode!ĭark themes can be handy if you find that all an app’s whites and light grays might overload your eyeballs at night. Go back to the “Device pairing” area of Android Messages, and you can choose to sign out of individual computers or all of them with a click. If you want to revoke a web browser’s access to your conversations and messaging, you can quickly do so from your Android smartphone. Lol I just sent a text from my Android phone using Safari on my iPad turns out the web is neat.- Dieter Bohn JRemove a computer’s access to your messages
If you missed it, just go to the settings menu, which you can access from the web version of Android Messages by clicking on the three-dot icon to the right of “Messages.” (Of course, you shouldn’t turn this on if you’re using a public PC that other people can easily access.) Which browsers work with Android Messages on the web? To make sure you don’t have to repeat the QR process, you can keep your computer paired with your phone by enabling “Remember this computer.” There will probably be a pop-up asking if you want to enable that the first time you use the web version of Messages. You should notice your conversations show up in the left column of the browser window.Īnd that’s it.
In less than a second, your phone will vibrate, and the two will be linked up.