How to Send Text Messages From a Computer with Any Android Phone (Samsung, Motorola, LG, OnePlus)

In this video, we're going over how to send and receive text messages from your computer with any Android phone. Welcome back to another video. I'm your tech guide, Wayne. In the video today, I'm going to walk you through how to send and receive text messages from your computer with any Android phone. That's right. With any Android phone, if you follow these steps, you will be able to text from any computer that is connected to the internet. Let's walk through how to do this. The first thing you'll need to do is go to the Google Play Store and you'll need to do a search for the Google Messages app. Just type in Google and then Messages. You can see it's already coming up in the search right here. We're going to download this app, Messages, and it will say Google LLC. Hit install. Every Android phone is going to come with a text messaging app, but you can download other text messaging apps. In this case, we're going to download a different messaging app and we're just going to change it to be the default messaging app. Once you do that, you will be able to link the app with your web browser and receive all your messages from your computer. Now we're on this phone. If I swipe up, that's where you get to all the apps that are on the phone. I'm going to go to the Messages app, which is the one we just downloaded. You're going to tap the button that says set default SMS app. Basically now we're going to make this the new default app where all of our text messages are going to come through. I'm going to tap set up default. I'm going to select Messages and hit set as default. It'll just take a few seconds. Then all your text messages that are normally showing up in your other messaging app will now show up in Google Messages, which is right here. You will need to hit agree. Now that we've done that, we're going to jump over to our computer and I'll show you what you'll need to do on your computer to link the two together. Actually, before we get to the computer, there's one more step. You're going to go to the three dots right here in the corner and go to device pairing. Then you're going to tap QR code scanner. Your phone is totally ready to do what it needs to do. Now we're going to jump over to our computer. Now we're on our computer and I am in the Microsoft Edge browser, but keep in mind this will work with any browser. If you have Chrome or Firefox or any one of the other web browsers, Safari, this will work on a Mac as well. Just open up your web browser and you're going to type in messages.google.com. When you type that in, it's going to take you to this website here. The next thing we'll do is go to the upper right corner and click on messages for web. Now it's asking you to scan this QR code with your phone. Now we just had the phone set up with this screen right here. All you're going to do is move yours over that square to pair your phone with the computer. As I was talking, it automatically paired, which is great. You can see this is the message that's on my phone. Now this is the message that's showing up in the browser. Now that we have paired the phone with the browser, we are done. We will now begin to be able to send and receive text messages from our computer. All you have to do if you want start a new message is go to start chat right here. You'll type in the phone number you want to text right here. Then you can just simply start sending the message. Let me just type in a number here so we can just test this out. I'm going to hit send to. Now the cool thing is it will also begin to link with your contacts. If you start typing in someone's name, it will show up so you don't always have to type in the phone number. You'll see at the bottom here where it says text message, I can type hi how are you and obviously spell everything right, which I'm not doing, and hit right here sms and that will send the message. Now you can also do emojis here. You can do your stickers, gifs, you can attach pictures, everything. So you'll now be able to have full conversations with your computer instead of on your phone. So that's how you link it and again this will work with computers, mac, pc. It'll work on tablets as well. If you have an ipad, you can also just go to your safari browser and go to messages.google.com and that will allow you to link up your phone with the device and begin to get your messages. So hope you guys found this helpful. Make sure you like, favorite, and share if it was helpful. Hit that subscribe button and stay tuned for more videos. Take care and as always have a good one.