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Hi - all of a sudden I can't send messages from my MacBook Air to android phones. Does anyone have any idea why this has happened and how I can change it back? Thank you
MacBook Air 13", macOS 10.15
A Mac is not a cellular telephone. By itself, a Mac has never had any capability to send or receive an SMS text message to/from a cellular telephone.
There are a few ways such a message can be communicated. The most prevalent would be to use an iPhone as an intermediary device, with the iPhone actually doing the communicating to the Android phone and the Mac handing off to the iPhone.
A Mac is not a cellular telephone. By itself, a Mac has never had any capability to send or receive an SMS text message to/from a cellular telephone.
There are a few ways such a message can be communicated. The most prevalent would be to use an iPhone as an intermediary device, with the iPhone actually doing the communicating to the Android phone and the Mac handing off to the iPhone.
It's OK folks. I have solved it. For people that have this problem:
1) Go to your settings/iPhone messages/text message forwarding - then check your devices!!!
Solved!
Sending messages from MacBook Air to android phones
