How to enable iMessage on your Android devices for free

How to enable iMessage on your Android devices for free

This article demonstrates how to connect iMessage service to your Android phone/pad so that you can contact your iPhone friends freely from now on. To finish the article will take 5 mins.

Prerequisite

  • A mac laptop or server
  • Android Phone
  • iPhone (optional for testing)

Features of AirMessage:

  • Safe: all the messages are stored and transited through your own mac and network
  • FREE

Install the AirMessage

This part has two main steps:

1, Install the AirMessage server on your Mac

This will forward new iMessages to your Android devices. Download the AirMessage Server for macOS from https://airmessage.org/install/

Set password by Edit password:

It will ask for a few Permission Settings which wants to read the messages:

Port Forwarding

Add a new port forwarding rule in your router with port 1359 open and forwarded to your mac. More details can be found at: https://airmessage.org/install/

2, Install the AirMessage client on your Android

Download the AirMessage client for Android from https://airmessage.org/install/. The Android must be at least Android 6.0 Marshmallow or later.

Open the app:

Click manual configuration:

If address and password is correct, we should be table to find a 1 client connected, and of course, you can connect many android devices at the same time!

Time for testing. Let's send a iMessage to ourselves from iPhone/iPad:

Congrats! You have successfully enabled iMessage on your Android device! If you like this story, please 👏👏👏, I will continue to share more tutorials.