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How to text from your computer with Android Messages

Google has the ability to send text messages from the web with Android Messages. This feature gives users much more flexibility in choosing how and where they can continue conversations. As long as your Android smartphone is on, you can text from a desktop computer or even from other mobile devices, including iOS products like the iPad if you open Safari. Besides text, you can also send emoji, stickers, and images over the web.

Using Android Messages on the web requires you to use Android Messages as your main messaging app on your phone. I’m fine, and Google clearly has big plans for the future, but the two don’t work together if you prefer Samsung’s default messages app or something else, for example.

Other than that, getting started and setting things up is pretty straightforward.

  1. make sure you have Latest version of Android Messages installed on your phone
  2. go messages.android.com on the computer or other device you want to send a message to. You will see a large QR code on the right side of this page.
  3. Open Android Messages on your smartphone. Tap the icon with three vertical dots at the top and far right. You should see the “Device pairing” option in this menu.
  4. Tap “QR code scanner” and point your phone’s camera at the QR code on your other device. In less than a second your phone will vibrate and the two will be connected. You should notice that your conversations appear in the left column of the browser window.

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And that’s it. You can keep your computer paired with your phone by enabling “Remember this computer” so you don’t have to repeat the QR process. Chances are, the first time you use the web version of Messages, there will be a popup asking if you want to enable it. In case you missed it, head to the settings menu, which you can access from the web version of Android Messages by clicking the three-dot icon to the right of “Messages”. (Of course, you shouldn’t turn it on if you’re using a public computer that other people can easily access.)

Which browsers work with Android Messages on the web?

  • Chromium
  • Firefox
  • Microsoft Edge
  • Safari

Remove a computer’s access to your messages

If you want to revoke a web browser’s access to your conversations and messaging, you can do so quickly from your Android smartphone. Go back to the “Device pairing” area of ​​Android Messages and you can choose to sign out of individual computers or all of them in one click.

There is a dark mode!

Dark themes can come in handy if you find that all the whites and light grays of an app can overload your eyeballs at night. If you want to enable Messages dark theme on mobile, tap the same icon with three vertical dots and search for “Choose theme”. You can go with light, dark or system default.

In the web application, after clicking the three-dot icon to the right of “Messages”, you will find “Turn on dark theme” in the menu that appears.

Keep your phone on

Android Messages on the web cannot work independently of your smartphone. So, if your battery dies or your phone shuts down for some reason, you won’t be able to send texts from your computer.

Drag media into Android Messages conversation

Sending a photo from Android Messages on the web is very simple. You can use the attachments icon to the right of the emoji and stickers or drag and drop the media into the conversation window to send an MMS.

Update October 5, 2020, 5:05 pm ET: This article was originally published on June 19, 2018 and has been updated to include minor changes to the menus.

Update October 20, 2021 at 1:30 PM ET: Updated to fix minor language changes in menus.

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