Using A Mac With An Android Phone? Check This Out
Android Messages For Web gives you some of the iPhone magic with an Android phone
I had an iPhone years ago, but gave them up when they got stupidly expensive and failed to ever significantly improve battery life. I’m now exceedingly happy with my year-old Samsung Galaxy M31, which has all the power I need, two-to-three day battery life and cost me only £220 ($290) without a contract.
However, there are moments as a Mac user when I get a wee tinge of iPhone jealousy. Not least with the way that the Mac and iPhone integrate, so that you can make calls via the computer or quickly respond to messages without fishing the iPhone out of your pocket.
That said, there is a way for Android-toting Mac owners to get a little of that integration magic, and it comes in the form of Messages For Web, which allows you to read and respond to text messages on your phone from any Mac web browser. Here’s how to set it up.
Messages for Web
To run Messages For Web you’ll first need to use Google’s own Messages app on your Android phone. This is by no means a hardship, as I find Google’s Messages app more fully featured than Samsung’s default text-messaging app anyway. (It supports RCS, which is fast becoming the new…
