Use Messages for web with Fi

With Letters for spider web, y'all can use your computer to text with your friends. Messages for web shows what's on your Messages mobile app.

With Messages for web with Fi, you can as well make vocalisation calls and get voicemail messages on your computer.

Choose how yous utilise Messages for spider web

To use Fi with Messages by Google online, you take 2 options:

Option i: Send and receive texts only (chat features available with this option)

Send and receive texts with chat features, like high-resolution photos. Once you turn on texting on your computer, you still need your telephone to stay connected. Messages for spider web sends SMS text messages with a connection from your estimator to your telephone. Carrier fees apply, similar on the mobile app.

With this option, you lot tin't transfer your messages from Hangouts.

Option 2: Text, brand calls, and check voicemail that sync to your Google Account (chat features not bachelor with this pick)

Make calls, send texts, and check voicemail with your phone or computer. Even when your phone is off, text conversations stay synced across the Messages mobile app and Messages for web.

With this choice, you can transfer your messages from Hangouts until September 30, 2021.

If y'all delete your Google Account, your information in Messages for spider web is deleted. This includes texts, voicemail, and call history. All the same, your texts, voicemail, and call history will stay on your phone.

Important: Hangouts no longer supports Fi. For a similar experience to Hangouts, we recommend you employ Choice 2. Learn how to transfer your letters from Hangouts.

Use pick 1: Send and receive texts only

Eligibility:

  • If your phone is off or without service, you tin can't receive or send text letters on your computer.
  • Conversation features are available with this pick.

To text with Messages for web, go to Cheque your messages on your reckoner.

Apply option two: Text, make calls & check voicemail

Eligibility:

  • With this choice, chat features aren't bachelor.
  • On your computer, make sure y'all use i of these browsers:
    • Google Chrome
    • Firefox
    • Microsoft Edge (Chromium is required for voice calling)
    • Safari

Transfer or sync your conversations

To employ this pick, chat features must be off. If you already use Messages past Google, before y'all sync your conversations, y'all need to turn off chat features.

Cease sync of texts, calls, and voicemail

If y'all desire to terminate backup of your texts, call history, and voicemail to your Google Account, you can stop sync. If yous used Hangouts for text messages, you tin can still discover your text messages in Gmail.

Delete texts, call history & voicemail on the web

Important: If you delete the Messages app from your phone, your texts in Messages for web aren't deleted.

Of import: When y'all delete a call from your call history, the call only deletes from Messages for spider web. Your phone call history is automatically deleted from Letters for web after half dozen months.

Important: When y'all delete a voicemail, the voicemail deletes from your Google Account and all of your devices.

Use Letters on the web features

Brand phonation calls

Important: International calls made with Letters for spider web are subject field to these rates.

  1. On your figurer, open Messages for web.
  2. On the left, click Calls and then Make a call.
  3. To start a call, click a contact.

​​​​Change your microphone or speakers

Important: Make sure you have a microphone that works and you accept mic permissions.

  1. On your figurer, open up Messages for web.
  2. Side by side to your profile photograph, click the speaker.
  3. Choose your microphone, call band, or call audio device.

Tip: If you use Chrome, learn how to fix problems with your mic.

Bank check voicemail on the spider web

  1. On your calculator, open Messages for web.
  2. On the left, click Voicemail.
  3. To listen or read the transcript, click a voicemail.

Tip: To cheque your voicemail, you tin also call your Fi number while online.

Read transcripts of your voicemail

Your voicemail tin can exist transcribed into these languages:

  • English language
  • Danish
  • Dutch
  • French
  • German
  • Portuguese
  • Castilian

It may have several minutes for the transcript to show.

Make international calls

Important: International calls made with Messages for web are subject to these rates.

If you are in 1 of these countries/regions, vocalisation calls may non be available:

  • Argentine republic
  • Mainland china
  • Cuba
  • Egypt
  • Ghana
  • Republic of india
    Important: India customers can make calls to other countries/regions but not within Bharat.
  • Islamic republic of iran
  • Jordan
  • Republic of kenya
  • United mexican states
  • Morocco
  • Myanmar
  • Nigeria
  • Democratic people's republic of korea
  • Peru
  • Russian Federation
  • Saudi arabia
  • Senegal
  • South Korea
  • Sudan
  • Syria
  • Thailand
  • United Arab Emirates
  • Vietnam

Hibernate your caller ID

Make emergency calls

Gear up issues with voice calls

Use a school or work account

If you employ a work or schoolhouse Google Account, check if your administrator allows Letters for web.

Format phone numbers correctly

  • If you copy and paste the telephone number, enter it instead.
  • For international calls, enter the correct land/region code and make sure y'all didn't enter information technology twice.

Phone still rings subsequently I declined a phone call on the spider web

This works as intended. You must decline the telephone call on all synced devices.

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