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Simple free way to text friends, if they don’t use iPhone but use Android?
Is there a simple and free way to text my friends, if said friends do not use an iPhone (thus iMessage is out I assume?) but instead use an Android phone, plus said friends won’t install an app such as TextNow ?
I use iPhone and PC but not Android (well I have an old Samsung Galaxy S3 phone but I’m not sure it still works).
I would be fine texting my friends from my PC or iPhone, in fact I might even prefer texting from my PC, as long I can both send and receive texts to my friends’ Andriod phone without cost and without my friends’ needing to do anything different with their Andriod phones such as installing TextNow.
I don’t mind if I can only text my friends while at home, using my home Wi-Fi, and if such things matter I am in Canada.
Much thanks!
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Signal, or Telegram
iMessage sends standard text messages to non-Apple users. I use it all the time to send texts to friends that don't have iPhones.
Yea I text Android users all the time via iMessage, the text just shows up in a green bubble, as opposed to iOS users, the text will appear in a blue bubble.
Definitely Signal. Same end-to-end encryption as Messages on iOS. It is multi-platform.
http://www.signal.org
And they just released a nice new update that will keep trying to send out your text for 24 hours if you suddenly find yourself in a location with bad cell or Internet access.
Occasionally I will have a bit of trouble sending larger images via text to non iPhone, but generally it's fine. It even makes use of WiFi if you have WiFi calling enabled. I have absolutely zero cell phone signal at my home, but can send and receive texts to non-iPhone people with no issues.
I also text to any all the time from my Mac using the Messages app. Very handy. @puppychumful - I assume by PC you mean a Windows PC though?
Friends don't let friends use Android.
Post of the day. 😂👍🏼
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No one likes it when one person in your group of friends doesn't have an iPhone, make life terrible for everyone else when it comes to texting. Well, maybe not terrible.... but you get the idea if you've dealt with it.
Perhaps I did not explain the full situation well enough?
Yes it's true that "iMessage sends standard text messages to non-Apple users" however I then get charged a fee commensurate with the size of the text I send. You see, I use 711 Speakout (pay as you go) and I use it because I have no need for voice communications via cell phone (except rare emergencies).
I have a perfectly adequate and very inexpensive landline phone (well it’s really VoIP) and the main reason I have an iPhone is for music, secondarily for free texting (notwithstanding my aforementioned few friends that use Android and will not load any apps such as TextNow) and thirdly for the rare emergency voice.
711 Speakout (pay as you go) works out very economically for emergency voice, but for my aforementioned few friends that use Android and will not load any apps such as TextNow, texting them is expensive because 711 Speakout (pay as you go) charges a lot for texts
Not that it matters for me, but 711 Speakout (pay as you go) also charges a lot for voice, but I use it so rarely for voice, it’s economical.
Remember, I don’t mind if I can only text my friends while at home using my home Wi-Fi, and if such things matter I am in Canada.
711 Speakout https://www.speakout7eleven.ca/
Yes I have a Mac, but again I refer to sending texts to Android users who refuse to instal Signal, Telegram, TextNow, etc. on their Android phones, and as mentioned above I get charged for each text I send to them, based on the number of characters in the text.
I find it about 50/50 Apple Android users among those I know. The issue of text send and receive has never come up. What is this issue you speak off?
Actually, one small issue. the Apple users are always sending a text quickly followed by a correction when their device has chosen the wrong word for them. Other than that I don't know what you are talking about.
Ahh, so the key word here is "free". You don't have any problem actually sending texts then, but don't want to have to pay for them.
Important detail since most of the posts have been pointing out that it's possible and how, but not for free.
That's probably a function of your carrier then. I don't get charged for calls or texts that go over WiFi calling.
Yeppers, one of the key words here is "free". See my post starting with "Perhaps I did not explain the full situation well enough?"
For me it's not being able to use Messages on the iPad or my MBP, I have to be on my phone with friends who are using Android phones. I actually do most of my texting on my laptop while working on mastering projects, so that's a real PITA for me when everyone else in the conversation is trying to do the same thing as I am.
My daughter uses something that lets us text when she has WiFi even though she has no paid service. I don't know what it is though and it's hard to get that kind of information out of her.
[edit ... I started writing my earlier message before you clarified, but didn't hit post until some time after you did, so didn't see it.]
I do not know about being charged for calls or texts that go over Wi-Fi calling. My IPS is a different service provider than 711 Speakout (pay as you go). My ISP is Teksavvy https://www.teksavvy.com/ and I use it only home internet access and VoIP. I do not use Teksavvy for cell phone use, heck I do not even know if they support it and in any case I use my cell phone so little, I like pay as you go for cell phone use, except for the one wrinkle I've been talking about i.e. my aforementioned few friends that use Android and will not load any apps such as TextNow, so that texting them is expensive because 711 Speakout (pay as you go) charges a lot for texts.
There’s a feature in iPhone called text message forwarding. It can be setup to allow your MBP to receive and send SMS (routed through nearby iPhone)
Unfortunately it also routes phone calls to your MBP too then. I can have a text message come through during a mastering session, but a phone call would be an issue. Especially lately, here in Seattle we are getting many spam calls every day at the moment
Might be separated now, (at least on ios15 I’m seeing a separate setting for texting vs phone call routing)
I really don't know much about it. My mother is nearly 80 and she has been freely texting me for years and it has been totally seamless whether it's from the phone iMac. I'm onAndroid though. No idea what she has been doing but I'm sure you are more tech savvy than she is.
Have you tried turning off your cellular connection on your iPhone, connecting the phone to your wi fi network and then send the message with iMessage?
Telegram, Signal, Whatsapp, FB Messenger - nearly everyone I know has one or more of these installed, whether they're on iPhone or Android. Personally I'd lean towards the first 2, but your friends may have already committed to another platform and not to install a different one.