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Siri is gaining a new talent, with deeper integration between iOS and Google Voice allowing calls and text messages to be sent via Apple’s assistant. The new feature was quietly added to the latest update of Google Voice, and after a little setup is almost as easy to use as placing a call or sending a message via Siri through Apple’s own dialer or iMessage.

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Indeed, all you need to add is the explicit instruction to use Google Voice for the call or message. By default, if you ask Siri to place a call to someone, the assistant will use Apple’s own dialer. If, however, you say “Hey Siri, call Mom with Google Voice” or “Hey Siri, send a message to Paul with Google Voice,” iOS can now route them accordingly.

The Google Voice Bulk Texter in action Step One: Sign up for Google Voice Google Voice is a VOIP service that comes free with your Google account. It basically gives you a phone number that you can place calls and send texts from online (or through Google’s app). Google Voice was once one of Google's greatest but most underappreciated services. When it launched way back in the prehistoric era of 2009, it promised to change the way we thought about our. Google Voice gives you a phone number for calling, text messaging, and voicemail. It works on smartphones and computers, and syncs across your devices so you can use the app in the office, at home, or on the go. NOTE: Google Voice only works for personal Google Accounts in the US and Google Workspace accounts in select markets.

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The new functionality was spotted first by Venturebeat, with Google seeming integrating Apple’s CallKit in the latest update to the Voice app. That’s a free download in the App Store, and Google Voice accounts themselves are also free.

How to set up Google Voice with Siri

If you’ve got a single Google Voice account, it’s a fairly straightforward process to get the service working with Siri. First, go to Settings on your iPhone or iPad. Then choose Siri & Search from the list of options.

You’ll need to have “Listen for ‘Hey Siri'” switched on, if you want voice control. Otherwise, you’ll need to hold down the power button on iPhone X or newer phones in order to trigger the assistant.

Then, scroll down to the list of apps. Voice should be toward the bottom of the list, and there’s now a “Use with Ask Siri” option at the bottom. Turn that on, and you’ll instantly be able to use Google Voice with the assistant.

Things get a little bit more complicated if you have more than one Google Voice account: say, if you have a work one and a personal one, that you use on the same iPhone or iPad. To make it work with Siri, you’ll first need to establish a default account for outgoing calls and messages. For that, head into the Voice app and tap the button in the upper left corner for the Menu; then choose Settings. If you have more than one account registered, there should be a Default option under the Calls heading, within which you can choose your preferred account.

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Once you’ve gone through those steps, there shouldn’t be any further setup required to start using Google Voice with Siri. As we said, you’ll need to add the “with Google Voice” – or words to that effect – to your spoken command in order to have Siri use that service rather than the iOS defaults.

Unfortunately, while Siri may be onboard with Google Voice, that doesn’t mean other areas of iOS are yet. You still can’t set a Google Voice account as the default for placing outgoing calls on an iPhone, for example, which has remained a lingering headache from the early days of the service.

That’s something you can do with Android devices, which allows different calling and messaging services to be established as the default. Ironically, though, what you can’t do on Android is use the Google Assistant to initiate Google Voice calls or send messages. For that we’ll have to wait for Google to push out another update.

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One of the handier features of Google Voice is the ability to send text messages via your phone’s original number and messaging app. Unfortunately, Google Voice is now set to lose this message forwarding capability “soon.”

With message forwarding, Google Voice is able to send a copy of your incoming messages to your carrier-based phone number, even allowing you to reply to these messages directly from your SMS app of choice without opening the Google Voice app. In a similar process, these messages can also be forwarded to your preferred email address.

An update to the Google Voice app, version 2021.10, began rolling out today via the Play Store, and in it, our APK Insight team discovered a line that points to message forwarding to phones being discontinued. So far, the notice does not appear to be live in the Android or web apps.

Message forwarding to linked numbers will stop working soon.

Following up on this discovery, we’ve found that the support page about Google Voice’s message forwarding has been updated to also share the unfortunate announcement.

Important: Message forwarding to linked numbers will stop soon because mobile carriers have started to block these messages.

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From what we can understand of the terse notice, some cell phone carriers have begun blocking the incoming messages from the “shadow numbers” that power Google Voice’s forwarding feature. The carriers’ blockage is likely part of ongoing efforts to eliminate spam calls and messages, and Google would seemingly rather discontinue the forwarding than have it not work with specific carriers.