Google could soon make it easier for Android users to send and receive RCS messages from Google Messages to other phones and devices.<\/p>\n
According to a few code strings in Google Messages, Google intends to use phone numbers to make interacting with RCS chats on multiple devices a reality. However, it may also require a Google account to do so.<\/p>\n
Currently, the Google Messages app doesn’t let users access their chats on multiple devices with the same phone number.<\/p>\n
Blogger AssembleDeBug first spotted<\/a><\/strong> the strings of code:<\/p>\n Use your phone number to send and receive messages on devices signed into your Google account.<\/p>\n Message from your phone number on your other devices.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n While there is currently a workaround to read and send RCS messages on a second phone, the process is somewhat tedious.<\/p>\n It requires users to use Google Messages in their phone browser and enable the desktop website option to pair it by scanning a QR code.<\/p>\n If the lines of code are anything to go by, users with multiple phones could soon no longer have to take these steps.<\/p>\n However, it should be noted that a deeper dive into the code suggests that the feature could be specifically designed for Android Tablets, which use the web version of messages.<\/p>\n According to AssembleDeBug, there is nothing stopping Google from bringing the update to phones as well.<\/p>\n Currently, the Google Messages app doesn’t let users access their chats on multiple devices with the same phone number.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":466089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[397,167,59913,39996],"class_list":["post-507850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-android","tag-google","tag-google-messages","tag-rich-communications-services-rcs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507850"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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