How to send a text message from your computer
If you’ve ever been working on your computer and received a text you’ve probably stopped what you’ve been doing to find your phone and respond. Now there’s an easier way. You can actually send and receive text message on your MAC or PC quickly and easily. Here’s how.
Apple devices – Messages
Apple has made it simple to send and receive text message by computer. If you have a Mac running operating system Mac OSX 10.10 and a synced up Apple device, such as an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch you are good to go.
If you use the same Apple ID for your Apple device and your Mac computer, then this function should work automatically. If not you’ll need to enable text messages on your Mac computer. To do this, follow these steps:
- Activate the feature on your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch by going to Settings > Messages then tap ‘Text Message Forwarding’ and select the name of the Mac computer to which you want to forward messages.
- Once your “switch button” displays green, you’re good to go. Your messages will now be synced between your Apple device and your computer, as well as your contacts, meaning any messages sent between you and them should be viewable on your computer.
If your carrier doesn’t charge you for text messages, then you won’t have to pay a thing for this feature, otherwise the cost to send a text from your computer is the same as from your phone.
Android – MightyText
MightyText is the Android version of messages. MightyText is a web-based app, and will work with Windows, Mac, Linux or Chrome OS. To enable it on your phone and computer you’ll need to do the following:
- Install MightyText on your Android phone.
- Once you’ve done that, sign in to MightyText’s web app via your preferred web browser and you’re good to go.
As with Apple Messages, if your carrier doesn’t charge you for text messages, then you won’t have to pay a thing for this feature, otherwise the cost to send a text from your computer is the same as from your phone.
Did you know you could send text messages from your computer? Would you be likely to do this?
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