

But at least you’ll get the message and know that something urgent is going down, even if you have a bad data connection. And you can’t reply to it to get a message back to the sender. Wouldn’t it be nicer if you could get your email to autoforward those messages to your cellphone? Wouldn’t that do the same damned thing as what Voice was doing in the first place? No more message forwarding to other numbers.Īs many have noted on Reddit and Androidpolice and elsewhere, you can get Voice to forward your incoming text messages to email. Well, Google just shut down the whole text message part of the picture.
GOOGLE VOICE TEXT UPDATE
And if your phone number changes, all you have to do is update the setting in Google Voice - no more spamming your friends with your new number.

Want your incoming calls to ring three burners but not before 8 AM? No problem. Want your texts to go to your brother’s phone when you’re in class, but not on weekends? Sure. Instead of giving out your true phone number, you could give out a Google Voice number, and use it to route intelligently all your texts and calls. Voice used to be a fantastic utility layer you could add to your cellphone. Why Message Forwarding to Linked Numbers Is a Big Deal But there’s a pretty simple if ugly workaround that I’ve yet to see written up so it’s not quite time to give up on Voice. Google Voice just turned off “message forwarding to linked numbers” and yeah, that’s a big deal. Forward Google Voice Messages to SMS/Your Cellphone
