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TextNow: Unlimited Free Texting on Your iPhone or iTouch (Google Voice support too!)

Marcus72 said:
Derek,

I have Textnow setup on my iphone4. And I followed your instructions for setting up google voice and text.

Everything works fine when I initate a text to my friends and they respond back. It also works when my friend text me at my @textnow.me address

My question, can my friend text me using my google voice phone number and it will forward to my textnow app on my iphone?
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Of course, you have to go into the settings for google voice and forward your texts to the textnow.me address. Once you initiate that first text with GV, all your texts to and from that person will use your google voice number. They can text you anytime from that number too.
 
Derek -

Thank you for showing us how to incorporate GV with TextNow! I don't get signal at home, & always found it a hassle to use GV from my phone, but wanted a number unlike the email address that TextNow provides. This makes everything so much easier. :)

Thanks a ton!
 
jnguyen4 said:
Of course, you have to go into the settings for google voice and forward your texts to the textnow.me address. Once you initiate that first text with GV, all your texts to and from that person will use your google voice number. They can text you anytime from that number too.
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Thanks for your help, during the setup I had checkbox for Text Forwarding. It's working now. this is an awesome app.
 
Ok. Is there any chance we might see an ignore option? I've been getting an increasing amount of spam and would like to see it stop.
 
Using an iPhone 4, when I'm in a call and use textnow, it seems to crash my phone. The power button and home button stops working. The app still works fine but I just can't leave the app. I emailed Derek about this already. Anybody else have this happening?
 
They released a new update today with a feature a lot of you have been asking for. You can now get your own phone number from the app to give to your friends!
 
Let me just say, that this is definitely the best texting app as it works flawlessly with my google voice number. However, I foolishly upgraded to a phone number with the new update which broke the GV functionality. While I can still receive texts thru my GV account, when responding it shows as coming from the Textnow number assigned to me.

Unfortunately, I have been unsuccessful in receiving a response from the company yet asking to remove the phone number from my account. If anyone from Enflick reads this, I would very much appreciate any help you could offer in resolving this. I love this app, but it is useless now.

I also tried to create a new account, but it will not let me sign out. I have tried everything, even restoring it as new and it STILL shows up with the account that I am having the issue with. Oh well, had to try something!
 
when you get a text from someone with a number how do you know who that person is? Is there any way of finding out?
 
So is it true that using this app there are no traces of a weird number or a text message on your phone bill?? Is it like it never happens
 
Hmm.. I need some free texting app which can send sms to 40404 (twitter mobile confirmation..) ..

Textnow cant send.. it requires 10 digit phone number.

Any ideas.. TIA.
 
When I'm in the textnow app and you have the call button up top---if I were to call the number I text how does that work? Is it a free call as well thru the app itself or does it use my AT&T minutes and show on bill as a regular call?

Can I get a simple version of what google voice is and does for us and the app? I have read about it but still confused on what it actually does??
 
When I text someone it shows that it was sent from some random number (616879 or something). Is it possible to show my phone number so the person knows it was me? Or does it only show the textplus number?
 
Ever since enabling the Voice features of the app, my battery drains about 20% each hour. Since then, I have disabled all voice options, reinstalled the app, did a hard reset and I still get horrendous battery life. Is anyone else having similar issues in the latest update? I noticed if I close TextNow in the multitask bar, my battery life doesn't suffer. It's when it's running in the background, I get nailed. I'd also like to point out when i close it from the multitask bar, I no longer receive push msgs.....any suggestions / similar stories?
 
Hi. Derek is it? This app is actually great I recently downloaded it and everything was great. But then I saw the text now voice the phone that's right next to messages at the top of the screen once you open the app and I purchased the 2.99 for one month but yet it still won't activate. I tried to purchase it again but it says I already have the subscription and it took the money off the iTunes account but yet it still doesn't work.
 
Krystyle said:
Hi. Derek is it? This app is actually great I recently downloaded it and everything was great. But then I saw the text now voice the phone that's right next to messages at the top of the screen once you open the app and I purchased the 2.99 for one month but yet it still won't activate. I tried to purchase it again but it says I already have the subscription and it took the money off the iTunes account but yet it still doesn't work.
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We had some server issues during the holidays. What is your @textnow.me address. I'll credit your account so you can redeem the voice feature again without paying.
 
Krystyle said:
Hi. Derek is it? This app is actually great I recently downloaded it and everything was great. But then I saw the text now voice the phone that's right next to messages at the top of the screen once you open the app and I purchased the 2.99 for one month but yet it still won't activate. I tried to purchase it again but it says I already have the subscription and it took the money off the iTunes account but yet it still doesn't work.
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I have the same problem. Any help please?
 
Derek im having another issue with my textnow. It won't send or receive pictures. At first it did now it doesn't. What do I do now?
 
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