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Updated 12:52 AM EST Dec 15, 2019
Android users now have two new ways to read and write their text messages on their larger screens – one from Google and the other from Microsoft.
That’s an option that iPhone users have enjoyed since 2012’s Mountain Lion release brought Apple’s iMessage system to Macs. But for years, Google’s smartphone operating system had no answer for that short of using a Google Voice number instead of your regular wireless digits.
Google began rolling out a better option this summer when it introduced a Web version of the Messages texting app it ships for Android 5.0 and newer releases. (If your Android phone includes a different texting app, such as Samsung’s, you’ll need to switch from that to Google’s.) To try that out, open Messages, tap its menu button, and select “Messages for web.”
In your computer’s copy of Chrome, Safari, Mozilla Firefox or Microsoft Edge, visit messages.android.com. Then pick up your phone and tap the “Scan QR code” button in the Messages app and point its camera at the code on that Web page; in a few moments, you should see your texts pop up on that page.
Photos, however, don’t appear with the same consistency as my correspondents’ words and emojis.
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You can set up multiple computers for this access, but only one can be active at a time. Your phone also needs to be online for this messages-to-Web link to stay up.
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Microsoft's offering
Microsoft has been touting its own concept of phone-to-PC messages in Windows 10’s October 2018 update – but since it had the yank that release to quash some bugs before resuming that rollout in November, many Win 10 users have yet to see it.
In this setup, you install Microsoft’s Your Phone app on your PC – though built into the October update, you can download it for April’s Win 10 release – and on your Android device, provided it runs the 7.0 or newer release of Google’s operating system.
Open that Android app, sign in to your Microsoft account in it, and follow its prompts to pair it with your PC. They’ll include a request for permission to read and write your text messages; this Android app essentially acts as a remote control for your usual texting app.
Your Phone doesn’t show pictures attached to texts (although it does let you browse your mobile device’s own photos and screenshots), and it shows only your most recent messages. Like Google’s Messages, it also allows only one phone-to-computer pairing at a time.
But it’s easier than Microsoft’s earlier method for putting your texts on your PC, a complicated system that required many more steps to set up.
Things to consider
Both Google and Microsoft’s efforts fall short of the integration Apple offers with iMessage – not to mention Apple’s end-to-end encryption. But because they leave your wireless carrier in the loop instead of routing around it as Apple does, they also shouldn’t incur the risk that switching to the wrong phone will leave friends’ texts disappearing, a common complaint of iMessage users.
Note that all of these systems leave personal correspondence in more places. And if you use text messages as a two-step verification method, they raise the risk of a laptop theft leading to the compromise of your accounts.
But the bigger risk there is probably of an attacker persuading your carrier to port your number to them. The fix for that isn’t to confine your texts to your phone, but to switch to a Google Voice number or an app-based two-step system like Google Authenticator that can’t be hacked by somebody calling up your carrier’s customer service line and pretending to be you.
Rob Pegoraro is a tech writer based out of Washington, D.C. To submit a tech question, e-mail Rob at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter at @robpegoraro.
Updated 12:52 AM EST Dec 15, 2019
A new open source project called PieMessage enables cross-platform iMessage support, allowing Android users to communicate using Apple’s iPhone messaging platform.
In the video below, we get a short look at the PieMessage app in action with a still unreleased prototype version of the app.
The video was sent in by Eric Chee, the app developer that built PieMessage and today released the code on GitHub.
It’s not the first app to enable the feature as similar but short-lived solutions have been previously available for Android devices. Like the previous solutions, it needs a server to enable iMessage support on non-Apple devices. The difference is PieMessage uses Mac and an OS X client as a server. In the past, apps that have been released used a third-party server to route messages, raising security concerns among users and likely for Apple as well. But this approach could in theory allow users to use their own Macs:
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Basically what the Android client does is send the text to a macbook. And uses the Mac’s “Messages” app to send off the notification. When the Mac detects an incoming message, it will pass it back to the Android. So yes there is both software you need to run on a Mac and Android. I have an old 2007 macbook that is just always on connected at home that serves as its client…
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In the GitHub project is an OS X client and an Android client as well as “messages.applescript” and Java Web Server. Chee explains the “messages.applescript is arguably the most important part of the project. It is what makes sending iMessages possible. This script is what sends an iMessage message.” And he also notes that since the project uses a custom API, it’s possible other developers could build clients for the web, Windows or other platforms in addition to Android.
Android Messages On Mac
The developer told us PieMessage is still a work in progress. It “can receive group messages, but sending has its limitations,” Chee notes. And he also points out that it’s possible Apple could patch future OS versions that could break the app.
But now that the code is on GitHub, it’s also possible for developers to build apps that will allow Android users (and other platforms) to access iMessage using their own Macs as a server.
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