Not on the phone. The Wisephone II texts with Google Messages, RCS included, and Techless’s own help page tells people coming from an iPhone to turn iMessage off and deregister. With Decaf, iMessage stays on at home, on your Mac, and the texts that matter reach the Wisephone II as SMS, with a way to reply.
The Wisephone II runs Wise OS, Techless’s locked-down version of Android, with only the apps Techless approves and no way to install your own, so the Android iMessage workarounds don’t apply. Techless offers Google Messages with RCS, so pictures and group chats with iPhone friends work over RCS rather than plain SMS, though Techless notes that RCS with iPhones can slip back to SMS (Techless FAQ).
Techless’s help article Not receiving messages from iPhones tells people coming from an iPhone to turn iMessage off, deregister the number with Apple, and ask to be added back to their old group chats. After that, iPhones that text you fall back to SMS or RCS, and the iMessage groups you were in go on without you.
Decaf is a calm iMessage Mac app that relays time-sensitive and important texts to a second phone. Your iPhone keeps your main number and stays home, plugged in. The Wisephone II gets a number of its own. Decaf, on your Mac, texts the Wisephone II when something can’t wait; the rest waits for when you sit down.
You answer in the same thread. Before a reply is relayed, Decaf asks for confirmation, and it goes out from your main number, as if you had typed it on your Mac. Your group chats stay where they are.
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Decaf works while the Mac is awake and online. You will be slower to reply than you were from an iPhone.
Decaf’s setup assumes your main number stays in your iPhone. Four things to decide before you call your carrier.
Already moved your main number to the Wisephone II? Then it isn’t in an iPhone any more, and Decaf has nothing to relay from.
Free 14-day trial. Then a $20 one-time purchase.
Join the waitlistSetting up takes about 10 minutes with both phones handy. The setup guide has every step.