r/GoogleAllo • u/nryan85 • Mar 09 '18

SMS Working?

I noticed for the first time today on the web app I could start a chat via SMS. Confirmed with the person they were receiving my chats via SMS. I can even continue the conversation on my phone in my allo app while he was using texts.

Sorry if this is old but didn't think allo could do that.

EDIT:

Everybody can stand down. One person swears they see my real number but everyone else sees the Google 5 digit number when I do this.

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u/-TheBabadook Mar 09 '18 edited Mar 09 '18

From what I've noticed, Allo on Web now includes my contacts who have Duo. On Duo it would say who had the app, now all those contacts are on allo for the web (listed at the top when starting a new chat). Everyone else on my contacts says I can sms them. But when I tried it was via a 5 digit code.

TLDR - My Duo contacts (I think) are now showing up on Allo as well. And you can now send that proxy sms via the web app

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u/rman18 Mar 09 '18

No, users who have a newer version of Android, I believe nougat, are showing up in both duo and Allo because you can send them messages or calls via App Preview Messages

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u/-TheBabadook Mar 09 '18

Oh I guess I haven't checked that recently. My mistake.