You need both theres no way to do this with an iPhone and a Windows PC.

It should then work automatically if youre using the same Apple ID to log into both your iPhone and your Mac.

Open the Messages app on your Mac and youll see a synced history of text messages from your iPhone, too.

You can reply from your Mac or send entirely new messages from the Messages app.

If your cellular carrier charges you for texts, youll have to pay that fee for the messages you send.

You can then sign into the MightyText web app in a web browser on your computer any computer, whether its running Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, or Chrome OS and you can view and send your phones text messages from there.

If you are based in the USA, you can sign up for Google Voice for free.

Google Voice gives you a new phone number, which you could use as your primary phone number if you like although its unclear how long Google Voice will continue to be a service supported by Google.

You can also have calls and text messages sent to that phone number be automatically forwarded to your primary phone number.

However, Microsoft does charge for this service, so youll have to pay to send text messages from Skype.

However, these wont sync with the text-message app on your smartphone.

People wont be able to respond directly to these messages, but you can set up sender ID to have the messages displayed as coming from your mobile number.

Send an email to the phone number at this gateway and it will be delivered to the address.

You will need to know the carrier associated with the phone number to send an SMS message in this way.

You could send an an email to 11234567890tmomail.net.

Search for email to SMS gateways to find lists of gateways for different cellular service providers.

For example, this email-to-SMS gateway list includes different email address for many different cellular carriers around the world.

These arent for carrying on ongoing conversations theyre just for sending a quick, one-off message to a phone number.

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