Send Text Messages from your Gmail Account

send sms in gmail

You can send SMS text messages to any contact in your Gmail address book right from the Gmail website.

To enable SMS services in your Gmail, go to your Gmail Labs settings page and enable the Text Messaging (SMS) in Chat feature.

To send an SMS from Gmail, first enter a contact’s name in the search box of the Gmail chat window and select Send SMS. Then enter their phone number in the “Send SMS messages”, type your message in the chat window and hit Enter to send the SMS.

The text messaging facility in Gmail is currently available in US, Israel, Pakistan and select other countries.

You can send (and receive) text messages via the embedded chat in Gmail website but not from the standalone Google Talk client. Yahoo! Mail, Windows Live Messenger and AOL AIM also offer the SMS messaging facility.

Amit Agarwal

Amit Agarwal

Google Developer Expert, Google Cloud Champion

Amit Agarwal is a Google Developer Expert in Google Workspace and Google Apps Script. He holds an engineering degree in Computer Science (I.I.T.) and is the first professional blogger in India.

Amit has developed several popular Google add-ons including Mail Merge for Gmail and Document Studio. Read more on Lifehacker and YourStory

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Google Developer Expert

Google Developer Expert

Google awarded us the Google Developer Expert award recogizing our work in Google Workspace.

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ProductHunt Golden Kitty

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Microsoft MVP Alumni

Microsoft awarded us the Most Valuable Professional (MVP) title for 5 years in a row.

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Google Cloud Champion

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