Texts to Verizon Number Sent to Google Voice?

[no_1_u_know]

Hello All,

I've seen a number of similar threads, but none that seem to address my question specifically...

I work offshore in the Gulf of Mexico away from Verizon's cellular service. When I come back to the mainland, I receive a flurry of texts messages I've had no visibility to up to that point.

I have Google Voice and a GV number. I sometimes send texts to people using the internet and the GV number. I can see these conversations on my Android phone via the GV app or on a computer, when one or the other is connected to the internet (no cellular network offshore).

I want to have all texts sent to my Verizon number forward to GV, so I have visibility to these attempts to reach me - which I otherwise will not know of until I return to Verizon's cellular network - then respond using GV. Is this possible, and if so, how?


Another question I have is this: I've seen co-workers offshore using their iPhones to swap texts with people on the mainland using wifi (no cellular network offshore. I've asked if they are using an app and they look at me funny and say no (I know of "whatsapp" and apps like that but don't think that's a good option, because both parties to a text exchange must use the app, correct?). Note sure how this is possible. I do not receive texts via the internet; only when cellular signal is available.

Thanks so much for any help you might provide, and please excuse my ignorance in this matter.

no_1_u_know
USA, Planet Earth

 

[Clementine_3]

I don't think you can forward the texts from Verizon to GV (you can forward GV to VRZ but that's irrelevant here ).
What you can try though is this app from Verizon, it will allow you to use the web to read/reply to texts just like you can with GV. It's actually a decent app, I've been using it for a while now (not the web part though). It may be as close as you can get to what you want to do.
You have to install the app and set it up so it's web/VRZ site enabled. You should then be able to access the website on your phone via the internet over wifi. I think. lol

 

[no_1_u_know]

Thanks!

I wasn't aware of this app, and it does what I want to do, I think. What I plan to use primarily is the web-based app, as opposed to the mobile app, because I do not always have access to wifi for the phone offshore, but I do typically have wired access on a 'puter via my employer's network. They Bluecoat pretty heavily though, so I hope I can access the Verizon site. The behavior is interesting though. I tested by sending a text to a friend via the web app and when she responded, I can see the entire exchange on the web. On my phone, I see her reply, but not my outbound. So messages sent from the web do not appear in the discussion thread on the phone, it seems.

Thanks again!

 

[no_1_u_know]

Oh... Like your gecko, if that's what it is

 

[Clementine_3]

Hmm, that's odd that the web-sent message doesn't show in the app. I've never used the web portion, I just like that app is customizable and does group texting well.
Glad it may help

 

[Clementine_3]

Oh... Like your gecko, if that's what it is

It is, indeed, one of my Leopard geckos. Her name is 3, she was shedding in that picture.

 

[no_1_u_know]

They may show up in the app. I have not loaded the app on my phone. I meant that messages sent online do not show up in the native text messaging app, if that makes sense.

 

[Clementine_3]

Yeah, I think that's the whole point of the separate app