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An Illustrated Guide to Google Voice MMS

An Illustrated Guide to Google Voice MMS YOUR MISSION: Send an MMS Should be easy. Google from Google Voice on your iPhone. just announced “native" MMS support for Google Voice across all major carriers. I'll just... THE SETUP: Put Google Voice number in Craigslist ad to sell your bike. Potential buyer sends text requesting a photo. Open the Google Voice app. Can't find a way to attach a photo. Search online “how to send mms with google voice" and find a Google support article “send mms through hangout." The support article directs you to the Google Voice website. Log into Google Voice. Get a message that you need to use a desktop computer. Weird, but no biggie! Go to your desktop anu go to the Google Voice website. Get a pop-up that says you need to enable Google Voice in Google Hangouts. Click "Ok got it!" Click Learn More ..nothing happens. Goes back to Google support article "send mms through hangouts" Try clicking "Google Voice in Hangouts" Go back to Google Voice Phew! They match! Check your Google Voice username Click the Hangouts icon. Click the Menu icon. Go to Gmail and check your username Scroll until you find "Google Voice in Hangouts" Oops! Logged in with a different user name. Click on the check box to enable Google Voice in Hangouts Go back to Google Voice Click Learn More Nothing happens. Log out, then log back in us'ng your Gmail username. Using Sprint? Enabling Hangouts will cause problems with your text messages. Go back and undo. Try the Google Voice app on your iPhone again. Go back to Google Voice Banner says all new text messages go to Hangouts Tap the original message requesting a photo of your bicycle Tap Launch Hangouts Hangouts isn't installed on your iPhone so the App Store opens to download Tap the banner the banner that says "Launch Hangouts to reply to message" The Hangouts app launches and you tap on your user name Download Hangouts Launch Hangouts New Hangout screen loads Tap the Compose Message icon. Tap Send to phone number To test, send a message to someone in Hangouts Contacts list. Ha! Forgot to get the number from Google Voice. BRB To test, type your coworker's phone number Wassup? Oops! Sent that as a Hangouts IM instead of SMS. Coworker's name and photo show up. Great! Enter the phone number and type your response. Hey! Sorry to bug you but let me know as Wassssssssup? hangouts?! soon as you get this message. “Invitation Sent" appears next to your coworkers heh sorry - I'm selling my old bike - spread the name but never find out if the message was received word k? Here's the picture of the bike. p.s. don't mind the white fluffy bit -that's Snowball my cat ;) Try to add a photo and send. Attach and send buttons are disabled Have you sent the photo yet? NO. Don't feel bad! We couldn't either.* YES. Congratulations! Now just do this every time you want to send an MMS. There's a better way. BURNER ® Purveyors of peace of mind since 2012–now featuring MMS. Illustration by Jory Felice Learn more at: brnr.me/gvfail *OK, we did find one weird little workaround... from Hangouts, on your desktop. Google, Google Voice, Hangouts, and iPhone are registered trademarks owned by their respective owners and are unaffiliated with Burner. Burner R is a registered trademark of Ad Hoc Labs, Inc.

An Illustrated Guide to Google Voice MMS

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The easiest way to use MMS on Google Voice is apparently not that easy.

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