There are two networks the Messages app on iPhone work on:
- Your mobile suppliers community (utilizing SMS / MMS or RCS).
- Apple’s personal iMessage community (utilizing an web connection, via Wifi or knowledge).
Whenever you ship a message via the Message app in your iPhone, your iPhone firsts checks if the particular person you’re sending the message to can also be an Apples person, signed up for the iMessage community, utilizing your Wifi or knowledge web connection. If the recipient is an Apple person, then Apple sends the message to them via its iMessage community (which requires wifi or knowledge). If there isn’t a wifi or knowledge, or the particular person just isn’t an Apple person, then iPhone sends the message via your mobile supplier’s community (as an SMS / MMS or RCS).
Nevertheless, the Messages app on macOS solely works on Apple’s personal iMessage community.
Because of this you can’t ship any message to Google Voice (or any non-iPhone cellular quantity) from Messages on macOS, as Google Voice just isn’t a part of Apple’s iMessage community. As for the way you’ll be able to obtain message from a Google Voice quantity in your Messages app on macOS, that occurs as a result of when an iPhone receives a messages, it additionally sends it to Apple’s iMessage community (via iCloud). (You possibly can confirm this by turning AirPlane mode on in your iPhone, and sending a message to your iPhone quantity from the Google Voice quantity – you’ll not obtain the message on the Message app in your Desktop; however when you flip off AirPlane mode in your iPhone and get the message on it, it’s going to additionally seem on the Desktop).
(So it is not simply Google Voice numbers – if any of your good friend has an Android telephone too, you won’t be able to message them from the Message app on Desktop, as Android telephones too aren’t a part of Apple’s iMessage community).
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