Transport & get text messages

For Phonation for Google Workspace accounts managed past your work or school, text messaging is available only in the U.s.a..

You can send text letters using your Google Voice number for free 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 utilize Wi-Fi, or mobile information from your telephone's service plan if you're not connected to Wi-Fi. If you're outside the U.Due south. and are not using Wi-Fi, your mobile telephone company might charge yous actress roaming fees to transport a text.

Use Vocalisation messaging for ane:one conversations​ only

Due to carrier limitations and to protect against spam, Google Voice messaging is intended only for 1:1, personal conversations. Information technology is not intended for bulk messaging, which tin result in messages being flagged as spam and blocked. If you lot have blocked messages, refer to the "Why can't I send text messages?" section below.

If y'all're a teacher and demand to transport bulk announcements or notifications, nosotros recommend using electronic mail, your school'due south website, social media sites, or other apps for instructor communication.

If you haven't notwithstanding, download the Google Phonation app on your Android device.

Ship a text message

Y'all tin use the Google Voice app to send text messages to one or more than phone numbers.

If you send a text longer than 160 characters to a non-Google Voice number, it'due south sent as multiple letters.

Note: You tin can't send texts to 5- or half-dozen-digit "short code" numbers.

To include an image with your message, tap Select prototype "". If your prototype is bigger than ii MB, it volition be sent every bit a smaller file. But GIFs over two MB won't transport.

Why can't I send text messages?

If yous send many text letters in a brusque period, or recipients mark your messages as spam, Voice may temporarily restrict you from sending more messages.

Text letters that may be blocked

Due to carrier limitations and to protect confronting spam, Google Voice messaging is intended only for one:one, personal conversations. Information technology is not intended for majority messaging, which can result in messages being flagged as spam and blocked. Text messaging behaviors that may be blocked include, but are non express to:

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

To larn more, encounter the Vocalisation Adequate Use Policy.

What happens when messages are blocked

There are ii stages:

  1. Your Google Vocalisation account may be temporarily blocked from calling or sending letters. If this happens, delight look 24 hours and try again.
  2. If you lot repeat the aforementioned beliefs, or if the initial behavior requires immediate intervention, your account will exist suspended. If you received a suspension detect via email or your Google Voice spider web folio, then your access to Google Vocalisation is now suspended.  Click Contact usa in the suspension notice to appeal.

Price of text messages

For Voice for Google Workspace accounts managed past your work or schoolhouse, text messaging is bachelor only in the Usa.

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

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

Go a text message

You can go text messages from anywhere in the world.

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

If yous don't get a text y'all're expecting, check if information technology got marked as spam. At the top left, tap Menu Menu and then Spam.

Note: To get text messages from websites, similar a bank or subscription service, yous need to utilize your mobile carrier number.

Terminate getting 2 notifications for every text

You get new texts in your default text messaging app. If you have the Google Voice app installed, you lot as well become text messages there.

To end getting 2 notifications, plow off Google Voice text forwarding. And so you'll only become texts in the Google Vocalism app.

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

Reply 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 lot want to reply to.
  4. At the bottom, enter your bulletin, and tap Send Send.

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