Send from more than one phone

QuickText is not limited to one phone. Pair as many as you like, then choose which one your messages go through. One phone sends at a time, and switching between them takes a click.

Capacity is the usual reason to add a second phone. A single SIM can only send so much in a day before the carrier starts slowing it down, and a second phone lets you split the same list across two numbers instead of pushing one of them too hard.

Add another phone #

1. Install KDE Connect on it. The same free KDE Connect app your first phone uses. Open it once after installing.
2. Put it on the same wi-fi as your PC. Not mobile data, and not a guest network. The phone then appears in the list by itself, usually within a few seconds. If it does not, click Refresh.
3. Click Pair next to it. Check that the code shown on the phone matches the one on your PC, then tap Accept on the phone.
4. Allow SMS on that phone. Android asks each phone separately, so the permission you granted on the first phone does nothing for the second one. Details here: Allow SMS on your phone.

You pair a phone once. It stays in the list afterwards, and QuickText reconnects to it by itself whenever it is back on your network.

Pick the phone that sends #

Click Use this phone in its row. The In use badge moves over, and QuickText confirms with “Done. Your messages will be sent through …”. Nothing needs pairing again.

The card at the top of the page always names the phone that is in use, so it appears twice on screen: once as the headline and once in the list below, where the switching happens.

The choice is remembered, so it survives closing the app. If no phone has been chosen yet, QuickText picks a connected one for you and tells you which.

What the chosen phone decides #

Everything QuickText sends goes out through the phone that is in use at that moment:

• every message on the Send page,
• the test message on the Your phone page,
• the answers you write on the Replies page,
• Import from phone on the Contacts page, which reads the address book of that phone.

Incoming replies are the exception. QuickText picks them up from every connected phone and matches them against the people you texted, so a reply to a message sent from your second phone still lands on the Replies page while the first phone is the one in use.

When the chosen phone is offline #

QuickText never switches phones behind your back. It offers the switch and waits for you.

• On the Your phone page it names the phone that is offline, names the other one that is ready, and points you at Use this phone.
• On the Send page, if another paired phone is connected, the warning carries a one-click Switch to … (it is ready right now) link.

A phone that stays unreachable is a connection problem rather than a choice of phone: Phone will not connect.

Test a phone you just added #

Send a test in a phone’s row only checks the connection to that phone. It does not send a text. The real proof is the Send yourself a test message card further down the page, and that card uses the phone that is in use. So click Use this phone on the new phone first, then send yourself the test.