Windows 10: You can now use Android Messages web app to send texts from your PC

Microsoft last month announced Your Phone app to enable a “seamless transition of content” between the Windows 10 and Android phones, which includes things like messages. Dell already has a similar solution called “Dell Mobile Connect“, and Google is also joining the push.

Google is today launching a web app of Android Messages called Messages for web. It’s a web app so you can access it in any browser on any platform including your PC-powered by Windows 10.

All you would need to do is access the Android Messages web app, and sync your smartphone to any laptop with a browser. You can also send and receive messages as long as both the devices are connected to an internet connection.

“Today and over the next week, we’ll begin rolling out Messages for web, one of our top-requested features that lets you send and receive texts from your computer,” Sanaz Ahari, Product Management Director said in a blog post.

How to send and receive texts from your PC with Android Messages

• Open Messages app on your phone.
• Select “Messages for web” in the menu of the mobile app.
• Open the new Messages for web from here.

At the moment, you can send text, stickers, emoji, and attach images. It’s likely that Google will soon update the web app to support additional features.

Microsoft has a better solution


Microsoft last month announced Your Phone app for Windows 10 devices that lets you take a photo that’s on your phone and access it on your PC without ever having to unlock your device.

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