imessages on android device

[Bvance44]

i've watched a few videos on youtube on how to do this but i feel like i might need lil help 

i would let to use imessages on my android devices but i'm not familiar with ios and mac products that much 

could someone that has does this help walk me through this make sure i have everything needed? 

i'm not familiar with mac-so so i'm not sure which version i need in order to do this 

 

but instead of doing all this through a mac computer and air messages app on android

i'm also considering  just loading ios directly into my android device it self? 

if anyone that as done either or both and has the willingness to help give me a shout! 

 

thanks!

[Eigenvektor]

2 minutes ago, Bvance44 said:

i'm also considering  just loading ios directly into my android device it self?

iOS is only available for Apple devices like iPhones, you can't install it on an Android device. iMessage is similarly only available on Apple devices, unless I somehow missed that Apple recently changed their mind about that.

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

4 minutes ago, Bvance44 said:

i've watched a few videos on youtube on how to do this but i feel like i might need lil help 

i would let to use imessages on my android devices but i'm not familiar with ios and mac products that much 

could someone that has does this help walk me through this make sure i have everything needed? 

i'm not familiar with mac-so so i'm not sure which version i need in order to do this 

 

but instead of doing all this through a mac computer and air messages app on android

i'm also considering  just loading ios directly into my android device it self? 

if anyone that as done either or both and has the willingness to help give me a shout! 

 

thanks!

If you want to use iMessage, you need to get an iOS device or a Mac. There's no way around this. Hackintosh is also a possibility but that comes with its own boatload of problems. 

[Bvance44]

2 minutes ago, Eigenvektor said:

iOS is only available for Apple devices like iPhones, you can't install it on an Android device. iMessage is similarly only available on Apple devices, unless I somehow missed that Apple recently changed their mind about that.

 

[Bvance44]

Just now, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

If you want to use iMessage, you need to get an iOS device or a Mac. There's no way around this. Hackintosh is also a possibility but that comes with its own boatload of problems. 

so even if i just have iphone 8? 

[jaslion]

1 minute ago, Bvance44 said:

 

You still need a mac. Also these video's literally are tutorials on how to do it.

 

Also their official tutorial:

 

https://airmessage.org/install/

 

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

Just now, Bvance44 said:

so even if i just have iphone 8? 

You could get an iPhone 8 for cheap and use iMessage from there yes. 

[jaslion]

1 minute ago, Bvance44 said:

so even if i just have iphone 8? 

Just read the site or actually watch the video's you linked. You NEED a mac to be on 24/7 to send the messages to your phone.

[Bvance44]

Just now, jaslion said:

You still need a mac. Also these video's literally are tutorials on how to do it.

 

Also their official tutorial:

 

https://airmessage.org/install/

 

i just feel like they is stuff left out do i need a certain version of mac-os or ios? 

[Eigenvektor]

3 minutes ago, jaslion said:

You still need a mac. Also these video's literally are tutorials on how to do it.

Hint: That video about iOS on an Android phone was posted on: Apr 1, 2020

[Bvance44]

another issue i have is i'm not familiar with mac-os if i got pick up something to make sure this works 

how do i tell which macbook has the right version ? 

 

[Bvance44]

sounds like if i have anything 2010 and newer? 

[Eigenvektor]

3 minutes ago, Bvance44 said:

another issue i have is i'm not familiar with mac-os if i got pick up something to make sure this works 

how do i tell which macbook has the right version ?

Anything new will come with the latest version of macOS (12). If you buy something used, ask the seller which version it has to make sure it's at least 10.10 (aka Yosemite).

 

You can easily find this out by clicking on the Apple icon top left and "About this Mac".

[Bvance44]

Mac OS X v10.5 Leopards can something this close to 10.10 be up updated to 10.10? 

 

[Eigenvektor]

6 minutes ago, Bvance44 said:

Mac OS X v10.5 Leopards can something this close to 10.10 be up updated to 10.10? 

 

macOS versions don't work the same way as Windows. Apple only changed the minor version for a long time.

 

10.5 came out in 2007, while 10.10 was released in 2014. Check which device it is, Apple has information on their site which devices get updates and which don't.

[Bvance44]

Just now, Eigenvektor said:

macOS versions don't work the same way as Windows. Apple only changed the minor version for a long time.

 

10.5 came out in 2007, while 10.10 was released in 2014. Check which device it is, Apple has information on their site which devices get updates and which don't.

i'll just make sure its 10.10 and higher i'm seeing few that s like 10,15

[Bvance44]

5 minutes ago, Bvance44 said:

i'll just make sure its 10.10 and higher i'm seeing few that s like 10,15

 

[Eigenvektor]

11 minutes ago, Bvance44 said:

i'll just make sure its 10.10 and higher i'm seeing few that s like 10,15

In that case you should be fine. 10.15 came out in 2019, so is a fair bit newer than 10.10

[jaslion]

1 hour ago, Eigenvektor said:

Hint: That video about iOS on an Android phone was posted on: Apr 1, 2020

Yeah but unfortunately it's also kinda legit :p.

[Bvance44]

1 hour ago, jaslion said:

Yeah but unfortunately it's also kinda legit :p.

have you done it that way?  .. its probly not worth trying? 

[Bvance44]

1 hour ago, jaslion said:

Yeah but unfortunately it's also kinda legit :p.

according to that you can just download file plug in phone and i basically turns it into iphone and just starts working but i'm not seeing where to down load the phone and he said you could get it from apples site but again not seeing it !  

[jaslion]

1 hour ago, Bvance44 said:

according to that you can just download file plug in phone and i basically turns it into iphone and just starts working but i'm not seeing where to down load the phone and he said you could get it from apples site but again not seeing it !  

https://airmessage.org/install/

 

Just read the steps.

 

 

[Commodus]

20 hours ago, Bvance44 said:

according to that you can just download file plug in phone and i basically turns it into iphone and just starts working but i'm not seeing where to down load the phone and he said you could get it from apples site but again not seeing it !  

Please don't try to install iOS on an Android phone. In fact, you're going to explicitly promise in your next reply that you won't try it.

 

Even if it was legitimate (again, the video's April 1st date should ring alarm bells)... you'd be installing an unsupported OS on hardware that OS doesn't natively recognize. Some functionality could easily be glitchy or missing. And of course, you'd have no official help if something goes wrong. From what it sounds like, this is your only phone; imagine if you couldn't take an urgent phone call or text because of your tinkering.

 

If you want iMessage, and you want it to behave as smoothly as any other text messaging you're used to... just get an iPhone. You can buy the new iPhone SE or even a semi-recent refurbished phone (the iPhone 8 is fine, if a bit old) if you don't want to spend a ton of money. But it's not worth torturing yourself with unofficial hacks that won't work as well, or might even break with little warning.

[jaslion]

1 hour ago, Commodus said:

Please don't try to install iOS on an Android phone. In fact, you're going to explicitly promise in your next reply that you won't try it.

 

Even if it was legitimate (again, the video's April 1st date should ring alarm bells)... you'd be installing an unsupported OS on hardware that OS doesn't natively recognize. Some functionality could easily be glitchy or missing. And of course, you'd have no official help if something goes wrong. From what it sounds like, this is your only phone; imagine if you couldn't take an urgent phone call or text because of your tinkering.

 

If you want iMessage, and you want it to behave as smoothly as any other text messaging you're used to... just get an iPhone. You can buy the new iPhone SE or even a semi-recent refurbished phone (the iPhone 8 is fine, if a bit old) if you don't want to spend a ton of money. But it's not worth torturing yourself with unofficial hacks that won't work as well, or might even break with little warning.

The video is about airmessage. It's just a webapp that runs on the phone and connects to a mac running imessage and then sending or receiving messages to and from the airmessage webapp to it's imessage.