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Sure, those of us who are interested in being able to send and receive messages from our desktop PCs have been able to do so for ages using apps like Pushbullet, AirDroid (no, it’s not an AirDrop ripoff, it existed long before Apple’s solution materialized), Join and others but has it crossed your mind that Notification Access, the Android feature that such third-party apps rely on is one of those that are not available in Android Go as part of Google’s efforts to trim the fat? And it makes sense.

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I like that you can archive conversations as well as mute them.īesides the above-highlighted features which make Android Messages a very rich SMS app that already has one leg inside the future of messaging or what SMS is naturally expected to evolve to (more on that in an upcoming episode of our podcast, 24bit), there’s also the bit where this is the easiest way for users of basic Android smartphones, like the ones running Android Go, like the Tecno Spark 2 where I tried the Messages web feature, to be able to send and receive messages from their computers.Additionally, you can just sign out/stop any active web sessions from the Messages app on your phone by going to the options menu (the three dots at the top) and clicking on Messages for web. You will need to toggle on “Remember this computer” when you’re pairing the Messages app on your smartphone with the web interface or later after you’ve synced through the settings app so that you don’t have to repeat the above process every other time.That settings section is also what data-conscious users will want to familiarize with so that they toggle on the ability to be notified when they are outside Wi-Fi zones and using their precious mobile data bundles to access their SMSs from a computer.

In that settings section, you will also realize that to make it easy to text from a desktop machine, keyboard shortcuts are supported.

The Messages web interface has a dark theme.

For those who’ve been using apps like Pushbullet and Join then then this is something like that. This is a stark contrast to WhatsApp which is an online messaging service that only needs to be mirrored for web access out of security concerns and not because that’s how it works. The online connection is for just creating an exact mirror of the messages on the smartphone (or tablet), a bridge, if you may say so.

It is worth noting that a SIM is necessary for text messages to be received, sent and delivered since this is not a purely online service.

The web interface just mirrors the mobile app and a constant data connection is needed both on the computer and the smartphone for sending and receiving of SMSs to be possible. So, if you have used WhatsApp web then this is more or less the same thing.

Android Messages’ web synchronization is just like the way WhatsApp web works.

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Click ‘Scan QR code’ in the resulting page, scan the quick response code displayed on your desktop computer’s web browser and… That’s it!

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You will get instructions on how to go about the remainder of the process which is easy… open the Messages app installed on your phone, tap the three dots at the top to reveal more menu options then select Messages for web (refer to this article’s featured image above).

Once that’s done, head over to a browser on your computer (I’ve tried this on Chrome, Firefox and Edge and it works) and navigate to.

Once installed, make Android Messages your default SMS app either by opening it (in which case it will prompt you to do so) or by going to your phone’s settings app ( Settings > Apps & notifications > Default apps).

To get started on Android Messages web, first of all make sure you have installed the app from the Play Store.