It’s 2022. Cars are driving themselves around some cities. Some kinds of clothing are becoming robotic. So why is sending a text message from your computer still kind of a crapshoot sometimes?
Granted, that is not true for everyone. If the company that makes your phone also makes your computer, the whole thing is pretty easy. The same is true if your phone maker is on good terms with that company that made your computer’s operating system.
Once that is done, you can use the same old Messages app on your Mac to contact or reply to the people in your life who don’t also have iPhones.Are you a Mac user who prefers to use an Android smartphone? There is one simple method that I rely on personally, though using it could come with a catch.See, many but not all Android phones use Google’s homemade Messages app for sending and receiving their texts.
On your Windows PC, locate the search box or button in your task bar and type “phone link” and then sign into your Microsoft account if asked. From there, you will be able to send and receive text messages from inside your PC’s phone link, but that is just the beginning. You can also view your phone’s photos on your computer monitor, save them directly to your PC, and even run certain Android apps inside Windows, all without having to plug anything in.This is, as you may expect, the trickiest scenario of them all. And it is technically possible to pull off, provided you’re willing to put in a bunch of fiddly work.
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