![]() ![]() Paste will be an option because the copy buffer from your Mac has jumped over to your iPhone with Handoff. Now go over to Messages on your iPhone and tap and hold in the same message field on that device. When you’re done with your witty missive, select the text, and copy. You can type in any macOS app, such as Text Edit, in a scratch email, or even in Messages, but don’t hit send. Type out your long, and yet poignantly brilliant thoughts to your dear green-bubble friend on your Mac. I haven’t found it to be quite as seamless as described but it is a way to solve our green-bubble problem. Continuity was introduced in iOS 8 and OSX Yosemite.Īs Apple explains it on their support page, with Handoff, you can start work on one device and then switch to another nearby device and pick up where you left off. Handoff is part of what Apple calls Continuity. The trick is to use Apple’s built-in tool called Handoff. It’s a workaround as I said, so it’s only useful for long conversations where you need to write a lot. ANDROID MESSAGES ON MAC ANDROIDBut I do have a workaround that will let you use your Mac keyboard and still send Messages to Android friends. I can’t fix the intermittency of this not working. I said I haven’t found the pattern, and this example suggests to me that there is no pattern at all! Ok, great! But when I wrote back “thanks” to that very same thread from my Mac, it got a red exclamation point next to it and said Not Delivered. I told her that I was testing something and asked her to respond if she received the message. In preparation for writing up this tip, I replied on that existing thread using my Mac. I have a long thread going with my lovely housekeeper Rocio. But sometimes you can reply to an existing message thread and sometimes you can’t! I know you can’t initiate a new conversation from your Mac to Android. I haven’t found the exact pattern to when it does and doesn’t work, but it’s always frustrating when it fails. I was delighted when Messages came to the Mac because I could text all of my friends and family just as if they were on AOL back in the day.Ĭontrary to Apple’s claim, you can’t always text in messages with green-bubble Android friends from your Mac. ANDROID MESSAGES ON MAC FULLBut I like to type on my Mac’s full keyboard whenever humanly possible. If you’re of a certain generation (significantly younger than me), you may find it easy to type long messages on your phone. I do have a tech trick that might help with one very minor problem when talking to our Android brethren over Messages. I wish I could tell you a tech trick that would solve all of this, but I don’t have one. I know someone who went away to college as a die-hard Android fan but actually switched to iPhone because he kept getting left out of activities. There’s all the stress of how threads get splintered and people get left out because of the blue/green issue. You love your Android friends, and they may even be family. We all know the struggle of the blue-bubble people vs. Two responses from Mac to Android - One succeeds, one fails ![]()
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