Sign into the Google Voice website and you can send and receive text messages at that phone number. Google Voice gives you a new phone number, which you could use as your primary phone number if you like - although it’s unclear how long Google Voice will continue to be a service supported by Google. If you are based in the USA, you can sign up for Google Voice for free. Google Voice is still around, but it’s also still only available to people based in the USA. RELATED: 8 Reasons You Should Be Using Google Voice (If You're American) If your cellular carrier charges you for text messages, you’ll have to pay their fee. Like Messages on a Mac, this works entirely through your phone - your computer just becomes a gateway to your phone, which does the hard work of actually sending and receiving those text messages. The AirDroid app for Android also does this and works well. You can then sign into the MightyText web app in a web browser on your computer - any computer, whether it’s running Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, or Chrome OS - and you can view and send your phone’s text messages from there. MightyText is an app you install on your Android phone. If you have an Android phone, the best way to do this is MightyText. RELATED: How to Send Text Messages From Your PC With Your Android Phone If your cellular carrier charges you for texts, you’ll have to pay that fee for the messages you send. This doesn’t cost anything extra - it just uses your iPhone’s text-messaging service.

Those text messages will be synced to your iPhone, too. You can reply from your Mac or send entirely new messages from the Messages app. Open the Messages app on your Mac and you’ll see a synced history of text messages from your iPhone, too. It should then work automatically if you’re using the same Apple ID to log into both your iPhone and your Mac. You’ll need to enable it on your iPhone by opening the Settings app, tapping Messages, and activating Text Message Forwarding to your Mac. This is part of the “Continuity” feature added in Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite. The built-in SMS-message-sending feature on a Mac only works if you partner it with an iPhone, too - not if you have an Android phone. You need both - there’s no way to do this with an iPhone and a Windows PC. If you have both an iPhone and a Mac, Apple makes this possible. RELATED: How to Make Macs and iOS Devices Work Together Seamlessly with Continuity

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