Neither WhatsApp nor Telegram: your mobile can send messages for free with iMessage and Google

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The great fall that the services associated with Facebook had yesterday due to an error in the BGP protocol put the alternatives to apps like WhatsApp at the time of communicating. Telegram is WhatsApp’s main rival and one of its best alternatives, but it should be known that no need to install anything to chat for free.

In the case of Android we have the Google messages app, while in iOS they boast iMessage. We are going to tell you how they are used since, although they seem (and are) SMS applications, they can be powerful chat tools to communicate.

Google Messages

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The Google messaging app, a few years ago, was nothing more than what its name suggests: a center to receive SMS and MMS. Just three years ago things changed with the arrival of the RCS protocol, which allows messages from this app to be sent via data or WiFi.

However, whether or not we can send messages via the internet will depend on whether both people have the chat functions active and that the operator you have hired allows it. For check if your mobile is compatible You have to go to General Settings> Chat functions and verify that you can activate ‘enable chat functions’.

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SMS to the left | Internet chat on the right.

If your contact has these functions active you will see that the messages no longer appear with the small text of ‘SMS’, but as normal messages. In this way, you can chat for free with your Android.

Apple iMessage

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The exact same thing happens with iMessage, Apple’s message app. If you have never chatted on this application you will have it through a messages app, but you can chat for free with other contacts who have iPhone, as long as they have the iMessage service active.

iMessage only works on iPhone, you can’t use it on Android

As good service from Apple, only works between iPhone owners, there is no way to use it on Android, or through applications, websites, or anything like that. In the case of iMessage, we just have to go to the ‘Messages’ settings within the main iPhone settings menu and check that it is active.

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In the case of Apple it is also quite clear when we are sending a message and when an iMessage message. In iMessages it is clearly specified in the text box and, if we are going to send an SMS, ‘text message’ will appear.

When using iMessage, in addition, we can send voice chats pressing the button of the voice wave, a somewhat more complete option than Google’s own messages.