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if you only have a data-only plan and use a voip service, how do you get sms? do they provide sms too? this was one of the issues that kept me going down a simi
by clairity 5y ago
if you only have a data-only plan and use a voip service, how do you get sms? do they provide sms too? this was one of the issues that kept me going down a similar route a number of years ago.
- woleium 5y agoVoip.ms user here. They bridge sms to email for you. It's a bit clunky, and doesn't work with some TOTP systems, but it's okay. (TOTP issue is to do with the number being listed as voip in some database I bilieve, I suspect transferring in a number may fix this)
- clairity 5y agook, yah, that does sound a bit clunky for general use, but probably fine for this use case. i'm at the point where imessage is enough for 2/3 of my contacts, but wouldn't want to preemptively freeze out the other 1/3 (and i definitely don't want to use whatsapp or whatnot).
- 29083011397778 5y agoAs another user of this system, SMS-to-email is one of my favourite features. Answering texts from my (Linux) desktop is hardly an iOS exclusive now, ha!
- jonpurdy 5y agoGP here. I use iMessage with an email address, and Signal and other data based messengers and I’ve been doing so since 2014 almost exclusively when I started thinking about using a data plan for my phone service. As a result my SMS usage is very minimal and VoIP.ms works well for the occasional 2FA code (from dumb banks that both force 2FA and only do it via SMS) or delivery notification SMS. In some cases the 2FA code doesn’t get received and I need to use the number assigned to the SIM. This works but I need to track which services do this so I have a tag in 1Password, just in case I need to change the SIM or provider one day.
- kornhole 5y agoYou can find an unofficial app in f-droid called VoIP.ms for SMS. It works well now and even sends notifications on my phone that has no Google Play.