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Google Messages For Web: Texting From Your Desktop Computer
Posted August 15, 2019
by Curt Price
If you're an Android user, you may already be using Google Messages as your texting app. If you don't use it, you should consider doing so. It's a fantastic texting app and is the default texting app on many Android phones.
Now...with that said...
Wouldn't it be great if you could read, send & receive texts through a web browser on your desktop computer? And wouldn't it be great if that service would sync with the Google Messages texting app on your phone?
Well...you can. And well...it does.
Google Messages has a web based service that allows you to text from your desktop computer and it syncs with Google Messages on your phone, so you'll alyways have the same messages in both places. And it's stupid simple to do.
- Go to https://messages.google.com
- If you don't have Google Messages on your Android phone, you'll need to download it first and make it your default texting app, which it will ask if you want to do once you open it on your phone.
- At https://messages.google.com/, go to "Messages For Web" at the top. It will display a QR code.
- Go into your Messages app on your phone and in the menu (the 3 dots at the upper right of the app), Choose "Messages For Web".
- Then click the "QR Code Scanner" button.
- Then hold your phone up to your computer screen and point it at the QR code being displayed (kind of like you are taking a picture)...and that's it.
- Your phone messages will be synced with Messages For Web in that browser window/tab, and you can send and receive from either your phone or desktop computer and the messages will show up on both your phone and your computer.
