You can soon text on desktop with Android Messages

An update coming to Android Messages brings with it a highly requested feature: the support for web browsers. Google has begun rolling out the ability for users to sync their messages between their Android devices and web browsers. This means you can send text, images, stickers, emojis, and the like right from your computer. And you will also be notified when a new message comes in. To pair, you just need to head to the Android Messages website and there you will need to scan the QR code to pair your phone with your computer. There is a “Remember this computer” option, which should make pairing easier in the future.

At the moment though, while the website is up, the QR code scanner on the phone isn’t live yet. You should see in the More options menu the option “Messages for web.” Google has begun rolling out the new feature and will do so in the coming week so keep an eye out for that. On top of this, other new features for Android Messages include new GIF search capabilities, previews for links of articles and videos, and the ability to copy one-time passwords with a single tap.

Android Messages might let you send SMS messages from the desktop soon

Android Police

Google has a whole suite of messaging apps but it hasn’t been able to come up with one solution that can let you message on all platforms in the same way iMessage does for iOS and Mac devices. But that might change soon. Android Police found in the latest update of Android Messages that desktop SMS messaging might be coming to its users in the future. It’s going to be a browser-based option that could work similarly to how iMessage will let users send out texts to Android-using friends from the iMac app. According to the report, this feature would be available on almost all major browsers like Chrome, Safari, Microsoft Edge, Firefox, Opera, and Internet Explorer.

Syncing will supposedly be an easy process and you’ll get notified every time you get a new message. Support for multiple computers is also there as well as the ability to check which computers have access to your Android Messages and being able to remove those that shouldn’t be part of that list. There is no word though if and when this feature is rolling out but we are keeping our eyes out for it.

Source: Lifehacker