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Chrome OS offers a handful of ways to keep your Chromebook and Android phone in sync. One of its features allows yous to admission your SMS inbox and respond to texts from your Chromebook. Here's how to set it up.

Before you tin enable the text bulletin functionality, you will take to pair your Android smartphone with your Chromebook. For this, you need to exist running Android five.1 or higher on your handset, and at least Chrome OS 71 on your computer. Also, brand sure both devices are signed in to the same Google account.

On your Chromebook, click the "Condition" tab in the bottom-correct corner and select the "Gear" icon to open the "Settings" menu.

Click the settings shortcut on Chrome OS

Under "Continued Devices," locate the "Android Phone" option. Click the "Prepare" button abreast it.

Connect Android phone to Chromebook

In the post-obit popular-upwardly window, choose your Android phone in the "Select A Device" dropdown and click the blue "Accept & Continue" push.

Select Android phone to connect on Chromebook

Type in your Google password and cosign yourself. If all goes well, the next folio volition brandish a message that says "All Set." Click "Done" to shut the window.

Confirm Android phone and Chromebook sync

Go back to your Chromebook's "Settings" bill of fare, and this time, there will be a "Verify" option next to "Android phone." Click the button and so unlock your smartphone. On your Chromebook and Android telephone, you should get a notification that says both your devices are linked.

Android phone and Chromebook linked notification

To enable SMS sync, download Google's Android Letters app from the Play Shop. If you have a Google Pixel, Nokia, or Motorola device, y'all can skip this stride because Android Messages should be already installed on your handset.

On your Chromebook, navigate to Settings > Connected Devices and select your Android phone. Switch on the "Messages" toggle and click the "Set Upward" push.

Set up Android messages on Chromebook

A new window with a QR code will appear on your reckoner's screen. You demand to scan this using your phone to verify the connexion.

Scan QR code to link Android messages and Chromebook

Launch the Android Messages app on your phone and tap the 3-dot bill of fare icon in the top-right corner. Choose "Messages For Web" in the context carte.

Tap the "messages for web" option on Android Messages

Tap the "QR Code Scanner" push and then indicate your smartphone's camera at the QR code on your Chromebook.

Scan QR code on Android Messages

The window on your Chromebook should now display your text message inbox.

Y'all tin can compose new SMS texts, manage existing threads, adhere files, and more than. Chrome OS volition also add a "Letters" shortcut to your computer'south apps library.

Manage Android SMS inbox on Chromebook

Even if you don't have Messages opened on your Chromebook, you will get a notification whenever a new text message lands on your phone. Practice note that this feature will simply piece of work as long as both your Chromebook and Android phone are connected to the internet.

If you want to opt out of receiving text letters on your Chromebook, you lot can practise so past going into Settings > Continued Devices > your Android phone and toggling off the "Messages" option.

Disconnect Android messages from Chromebook

In improver to SMS messaging, Chrome OS has a few more features dedicated to Android users, including the power to instantly tether your phone's mobile data.