Send & get text messages

For Vocalization for Google Workspace accounts managed past your work or schoolhouse, text messaging is bachelor but in the Us.

You can send text letters using your Google Vocalisation number for costless to U.S. and Canadian numbers (excluding U.S. territories American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands). Texts sent using Voice will use Wi-Fi, or mobile data from your phone'due south service program if you're non connected to Wi-Fi. If you're outside the U.S. and are not using Wi-Fi, your mobile telephone visitor might charge yous extra roaming fees to send a text.

Use Vocalism messaging for one:1 conversations​ merely

Due to carrier limitations and to protect against spam, Google Voice messaging is intended but for i:i, personal conversations. It is not intended for bulk messaging, which tin can result in messages being flagged as spam and blocked. If you take blocked letters, refer to the "Why tin't I ship text letters?" section beneath.

If you're a teacher and need to send bulk announcements or notifications, we recommend using email, your school'due south website, social media sites, or other apps for teacher communication.

If you haven't all the same, download the Google Vocalisation app on your Android device.

Send a text message

Yous can use the Google Voice app to send text messages to 1 or more phone numbers.

If you send a text longer than 160 characters to a non-Google Vox number, it's sent as multiple messages.

Notation: You can't send texts to five- or six-digit "brusk code" numbers.

To include an image with your message, tap Select paradigm "". If your image is bigger than two MB, it will be sent as a smaller file. But GIFs over 2 MB won't send.

Why tin can't I send text messages?

If you send many text messages in a short menses, or recipients marker your messages as spam, Voice may temporarily restrict y'all from sending more letters.

Text messages that may exist blocked

Due to carrier limitations and to protect confronting spam, Google Voice messaging is intended only for 1:one, personal conversations. It is not intended for bulk messaging, which can result in messages beingness flagged every bit spam and blocked. Text messaging behaviors that may exist blocked include, just are not express to:

  • Sending the same text message to multiple recipients, especially when those letters do not receive replies
  • Sending URL links
  • Sending large numbers of text messages in a short period of time

To larn more, see the Voice Adequate Use Policy.

What happens when letters are blocked

In that location are 2 stages:

  1. Your Google Vocalism account may exist temporarily blocked from calling or sending messages. If this happens, please wait 24 hours and try again.
  2. If you repeat the same beliefs, or if the initial behavior requires immediate intervention, your account will be suspended. If you lot received a suspension notice via e-mail or your Google Vox web folio, then your admission to Google Vox is now suspended.  Click Contact us in the suspension notice to entreatment.

Toll of text messages

For Vox for Google Workspace accounts managed past your work or school, text messaging is available but in the United states of america.

Letters you send to U.S. or Canadian numbers don't use Vox credit or your mobile phone plan's text messages.

Messages in the Voice app are sent with data, not with your text messaging program. Standard data limits and rates use, based on your plan with your carrier.

Get a text bulletin

You can go text messages from anywhere in the earth.

  1. On your Android device, open up the Voice app "".
  2. Open up the tab for Messages Messages tab. Messages you haven't read withal are in bold.

If you don't become a text you're expecting, check if it got marked every bit spam. At the top left, tap Menu Menu and then Spam.

Notation: To get text messages from websites, similar a bank or subscription service, you need to use your mobile carrier number.

Stop getting 2 notifications for every text

You get new texts in your default text messaging app. If you lot have the Google Voice app installed, you also become text letters in that location.

To stop getting 2 notifications, plough off Google Vocalism text forwarding. So you lot'll merely go texts in the Google Voice app.

  1. On your Android device, open up the Vocalism app "".
  2. At the top left, tap Menu Menu and then Settings.
  3. Tap Forward messages to linked numbers.
  4. Uncheck the box adjacent to your device number.

Answer to a text message

  1. On your Android device, open the Voice app "".
  2. Open the tab for Messages Messages tab.
  3. Tap the text message you want to reply to.
  4. At the bottom, enter your message, and tap Send Send.

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