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Looking for a solution to write text messages on your PC or Mac and send them via your iPhone? There’re plenty of apps allow you to send SMS by using computer keyboard but most of them require a jailbroken iPhone.

If you don’t intend to jailbreak your iPhone, here’s an amazing free iPhone app – OneSMS, which allows you type text messages right on your browser and send them through your iPhone without costing you a single penny.

How to use OneSMS [Step-by-Step Guide]

Since the official website of OneSMS doesn’t provide a complete to guide to integrate OneSMS app with PC or Mac, we decide to write a step-by-step guide for it.

To start using OneSMS, you need:

• Internet connection on iPhone and computer
• Internet browser – IE, Mozilla Firefox, Safari or Chrome
• Email account
• iOS 4.0 or later

First of all, click this link to download and install OneSMS in iTunes. Or you can search "OneSMS" right on your iPhone App Store.

Upon installation, click on OneSMS icon on you iPhone to launch it.

Here, you will be given a Pairing ID. If Pairing ID is not given when you first launch OneSMS app, push your iPhone’s Home button and re-launch the program. Now wait, the Pairing ID should appear

Once you have the Pairing ID, click "E-Mail" button at below.

Click on the E-Mail icon to open the iPhone email app which contains the necessary link for the OneSMS writer.

Check your email and click the link to access OneSMS Writer in your Internet browser.

Key in the same Pairing ID on your iPhone in OneSMS Writer page. Then type in the recipient and the text message in a web browser screen.

The message gets routed to a server somewhere and then gets sent to your iPhone as a data message withint 5 – 10 seconds.

The message pops up in your iPhone as a notification and goes straight to the TEXT message entry function. If the name is correct, all you need to do is press "Send" on your iphone and off the message goes.

After SMS is Sent

If you realize your Pairing ID has been changed after a SMS is sent, ignore it and you can still send SMS in OneSMS Writer page with your previous Pairing ID.

Next time if you re-open OneSMS Writer page, cookies in your browser remember your Pairing ID so you don’t need to keep re-entering it. You also don’t need to launch OneSMS app on your iPhone in order to use OneSMS Writer page in future.

No account or registration is required to use OneSMS and it’s totally free of charge.

Note: 1000 Global Quota of Push messages are available to all users on daily basis. As long as the "Global Quota" has not reached 0, you’re allowed to send messages to your iPhone. But those who prefer its own limits may buy it using In App Purchase.

Examples:

Following options are available to fill in the TO field:

1. It can be left blank and you add it later on the iPhone.
2. One or more phone numbers separated by commas (eg +41 79 123 45 67, +41 79 111 22 33).
3. One or more names separated by commas.

For more examples on text messages recipient field, please refer to OneSMS examples page.

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