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Google has the ableness to text from the web with Android Messages. The full-length gives users a lot more pliancy in commissioning how as well as zone they can carry on conversations. As long as your Android smartphone is powered on, you can treatise from a desktop computer or metrical other mobile devices -- including iOS articles like an iPad if you nonbelligerent painless up Safari. Briefed from text, you can conjointly skyrocket emoji, stickers, as well as images over the web.

Using Android Messages on the web requires utilizing Android Messages as your preeminent texting app on your phone. I like it nonbelligerent fine, as well as Google is strikingly planning big things for the future, but if you prefer, say, Samsung's deficiency messages app or teachings else, the two don't work together.

With that out of the way, getting started as well as setting things up is adequately simple.

1. Make sure you've got the latest version of Android Messages installed on your phone
2. Go to messages.android.com on the computer or other device you appetite to treatise from. You'll see a big QR code on the right side of this page.
3. Open up Android Messages on your smartphone. Tap the icon with three vertical dots at the top as well as to the far right. You should see a "Messages for web" plurality central this menu.
4. Tap "QR code scanner" as well as point your phone's camera at the QR code on your other device. In less than a second, your phone will vibrate, as well as the two will be married up. You should prescience your conversations silkiness up in the leftward cavalcade of the browser window. Google says that "conversation threads, contacts, as well as other settings will be encrypted as well as cached on your browser."
   Note: this doesn't measly your all-out treatise conversations are encrypted. They're not.

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And that's it. To make sure you don't gotta repeat the QR process, you can pension your computer paired with your phone by enabling "Remember this computer." There will superficially be a pop-up asking if you appetite to enable that the inceptive time you use the web version of Messages. If you nonexistent it, nonbelligerent go to the settings menu, which you can derive from the web version of Android Messages by clicking on the three-dot icon to the right of "Messages." (Of course, you shouldn't upheaval this on if you're utilizing a public PC that other persons can easily access.)

Which browsers work with Android Messages on the web?

• Chrome
• Firefox
• Microsoft Edge
• Safari

Lol I nonbelligerent sent a treatise from my Android phone utilizing Safari on my iPad turns out the web is neat.

-- Dieter Bohn (@backlon) June 19, 2018

Remove a computer's derive to your messages

If you appetite to revoke a web browser's derive to your conversations as well as messaging, you can quickly do therefore from your Android smartphone. Go inadvertently to the "Messages for web" champaign of Android Messages, as well as you can pull to sign out of individualistically computers or all of them with a click.

There's a dimday mode!

Dark themes can be helpful if you find that all an app's whites as well as relucent grays pertinacity persecute your eyeballs at night. If you appetite to enable the Messages dimday toot on mobile, tap the aforementioned icon with three vertical dots as well as looking for "Choose theme." You can go with light, dark, or the system default.

On the web app, you'll find "Enable dimday theme" in the menu that you get serial clicking on the three-dot icon to the right of "Messages.

Keep your phone powered on

Android Messages on the web can't work unbuttoned of your smartphone. Therefore if your nuzzle dies or if your phone shuts off for any reason, you won't be brawny to skyrocket any texts from your computer.

Drag media into the Android Messages conversation

Sending a photo from Android Messages on the web is defunct simple. You can either use the attachments icon -- to the right of emoji as well as stickers -- or nonbelligerent hoist as well as teardrop media into the conversation window to skyrocket an MMS.

Update October 5th, 5:05PM ET: This chattel was originally published on June 19th, 2018, as well as has been updated to integrate ornament changes made-up to menus.