Resolved How to message someone with two different phone numbers?

[eyoungren]

Wife has iMessage on her iPhone and SMS on her Android. Her iPhone and Android are two different phone numbers. iOS has merged our iMessage/SMS conversation.

How do I send ONE message that goes to both her iPhone and her Android without having to manually switch between sending iMessage or SMS?

 

[hyelton]

Wife has iMessage on her iPhone and SMS on her Android. Her iPhone and Android are two different phone numbers. iOS has merged our iMessage/SMS conversation.

How do I send ONE message that goes to both her iPhone and her Android without having to manually switch between sending iMessage or SMS?

You’d need to have 2 separate contacts and use group messaging

 

[eyoungren]

You’d need to have 2 separate contacts and use group messaging

Crap. I thought it wouldn't be easy.

I tried group messaging both her numbers (single contact) but it seems to have resulted in just an SMS to both phones (or possibly just to the phone of the last number I added). She's taking her Pixel to work and using that phone all day which is fine, but when she gets home she doesn't always switch back to her iPhone. So, I never know which phone to message!

Thanks!

 

[eyoungren]

Just an update on this…

A few weeks ago I managed to create a group text message that includes both of my wife's phone numbers. I'm not sure what she sees on her end but she tells me she gets my messages on both her iPhone and her Pixel - which is what I intended.

On my side all I see is green bubbles for me (which is to be expected I guess since the Pixel would be SMS) and then her replies (which aren't colored). If I return to the list I get a little message at the bottom that says messages are uploading to iCloud.

So, somehow this is working. It's not the exact way I pictured it but that doesn't matter.

 

[Ruggy]

Well have you never sent a message to two different recipients? You can do it exactly the same way.
You can start a new message copy and paste both the contact numbers into the 'To' line and it should go to both of them.
I have friends with a work and a personal phone and I do this.

 

[eyoungren]

Well have you never sent a message to two different recipients? You can do it exactly the same way.
You can start a new message copy and paste both the contact numbers into the 'To' line and it should go to both of them.
I have friends with a work and a personal phone and I do this.

Yes, I have done that. That wasn't the issue. Those are different contacts.

My wife is one contact with two different phone numbers attached to that one contact.

Figuring it out as you did wasn't a priority. But since I stumbled into it recently I thought I'd update the thread.

 

[ian87w]

The group message thing is probably the only method if you want to stick to regular Messages app. Downside is the fallback to MMS if you are sending photos.

An option is to use a messaging service that supports multiple devices, eg. Telegram. Your wife can install Telegram on both the iPhone and the Pixel with the same Telegram account.

 

[eyoungren]

The group message thing is probably the only method if you want to stick to regular Messages app. Downside is the fallback to MMS if you are sending photos.

An option is to use a messaging service that supports multiple devices, eg. Telegram. Your wife can install Telegram on both the iPhone and the Pixel with the same Telegram account.

Her Pixel is mainly used for work. She's a teacher, so she'd rather parents have an entirely different phone number than her personal number. Most of my messaging to her in this manner consists of me informing her that I have arrived to pick her up from school when she's out. I'm just lazy and don't want to send one message twice. By that point of the day I have no idea which phone she has in her hand.

Once she's off school premises it no longer matters because she uses her iPhone.

 

[cynics]

Goto messages, start typing in her contact name, when you see her name start to auto populate tap on the arrow to the right of her name, check the number you want to use. I didn't read all the post so maybe this was discussed, apologize if so...

 

[eyoungren]

Goto messages, start typing in her contact name, when you see her name start to auto populate tap on the arrow to the right of her name, check the number you want to use. I didn't read all the post so maybe this was discussed, apologize if so...

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No, I don't believe it was mentioned. But what you are suggesting is what I stumbled into on my own recently. That's how I figured it out.