On Mon, 4 May 2020 19:37:10 -0700
wes <[email protected]> dijo:

>On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 2:39 PM John Jason Jordan <[email protected]>
>wrote:
>> If the Google Voice account sends the text messages to my Android
>> phone they will not be viewable. What I need is for Google Voice to
>> display text messages on my computer, i.e., in Chrome or Firefox. As
>> far as I can tell that is not an option.

>I use Google Voice. One of the things I like about it is its
>redundancy. I can get text messages via at least 4 interfaces
>simultaneously. The downside is that I have more items to mark "read"
>but for me, that is well worth the benefit of making it very difficult
>to get locked out of my ability to receive messages. In my line of
>work I need to be Highly Available(tm) and this goes a long way
>towards helping with that.
>
>Google Voice offers a smartphone app that is unrelated to the Messages
>(or similar) app that usually handles text messages going to the phone
>by default. This is not mandatory. However, it will insist that you
>provide a number to a real phone, so be prepared for that. It will
>forward phone calls to the Google Voice number over to the real phone
>number.
>
>I get GV text messages in the app, over email, in a Chrome browser
>extension, and in a web interface found at voice.google.com. Your
>physical phone does not have to be involved.

Many thanks. I may have problems installing the app because my phone
had too many pieces of Google deleted and now I am locked out of the
app store. But this sounds like a solution. I will get to work on this
tomorrow. :)
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