How to text from your computer with Android Messages

Google has the ability to text from the web with Android Messages. The feature gives users a lot more flexibility in choosing how and where they can carry on conversations. As long as your Humanoid smartphone is powered on, you can text from a desktop computer or even other mobile devices — including iOS products like an iPad if you just pioneer Safari. Aside from text, you can as wel send emoji, stickers, and images over the web.

Using Mechanical man Messages on the web requires exploitation Android Messages as your main texting app on your phone. I like it just fine, and Google is clearly planning big things for the future, but if you prefer, say, Samsung's default messages app or something else, the two don't work unitedly.

Therewith out of the way, acquiring started and setting things up is fairly simple.

Make sure you've got the latest version of Android Messages installed on your call up
Go to messages.android.com connected the computer or other device you want to text from. You'll assure a big QR code on the right side of this page.
Open up Android Messages on your smartphone. Tap the icon with deuce-ac vertical dots at the top and to the long right. You should ensure a "Twist mating" option inside this menu.
Bu "QR code scanner" and point your phone's camera at the QR code on your some other device. In less than a ordinal, your phone will resonate, and the 2 will make up linked functioning. You should notice your conversations show in the left column of the browser window.

And that's it. To make sure you don't bear to repeat the QR process, you can keep your computer paired with your phone away enabling "Remember this computer." There will likely be a pop-up interrogative if you need to enable that the first clock you use the web adaptation of Messages. If you missed it, just live to the settings menu, which you can memory access from the web reading of Android Messages by clicking on the three-dot icon to the right of "Messages." (Course, you shouldn't turn this on if you're using a public PC that other populate john easily access.)

Which browsers study with Humanoid Messages on the web?

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Firefox
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Lol I just sent a text edition from my Android phone using Safari on my iPad turns out the web is bang-up.
— Dieter Bohn (@backlon) June 19, 2018

Remove a computing machine's access to your messages

If you privation to revoke a web web browser's access to your conversations and messaging, you can quickly act up so from your Android smartphone. Go back down to the "Device pairing" area of Mechanical man Messages, and you can choose to sign out of individual computers surgery all of them with a detent.

There's a dark mode!

Dark themes can be adroit if you find that all an app's whites and light grays might overload your eyeballs at Night. If you need to enable the Messages dark theme on mobile, tap the identical icon with three steep dots and looking "Choose report." You can accompany light, dark, or the system default.

On the net app, you'll find "Turn on drear stem" in the menu that you get after clicking on the three-dot picture to the suited of "Messages.

Keep your phone powered on

Android Messages on the web can't work independently of your smartphone. So if your battery dies or if your phone shuts off for any argue, you won't be able to send any texts from your calculator.

Drag media into the Android Messages conversation

Sending a photo from Android Messages on the web is dead simple. You can either use the attachments icon — to the right of emoji and stickers — or just drop behind and sink media into the conversation windowpane to air an MMS.

Update October 5th, 2020, 5:05PM ET: This clause was in the first place published on June 19th, 2018, and has been updated to include small changes ready-made to menus.

Update Oct 20th, 2021, 1:30PM ET: Updated to correct venial linguistic process changes in the menus.