How to text multiple people individually from your Mac

If your Mac has Messages signed in to your Apple ID, it can already send texts from your phone number. It just will not send one message to a list as separate texts. Here is how to get it to.

First: make sure your Mac can text everyone

1. Open Messages on your Mac and sign in with the same Apple ID as your iPhone.
2. To reach Android phones too, turn on Text Message Forwarding on your iPhone: open Settings, then Messages (on newer iPhones: Settings, Apps, Messages), then Text Message Forwarding, and switch on your Mac.
3. Send yourself a test text from the Mac.

Now your Mac sends blue iMessages to iPhones and, through your iPhone, green texts to Android phones. All from your number.

The free way: Shortcuts on the Mac

Shortcuts comes with macOS 12 and newer.

1. Open Shortcuts and click the plus button.
2. Add a Contacts action and choose your people.
3. Add Repeat with Each.
4. Inside it, add Send Message, set the recipient to "Repeat Item," and write your message.
5. Run it.

Good for a short, fixed list. Harder when the list changes every week, when you want each person's name in the text, or when you need to know who did not get it.

The faster way: Bullhorn Text

Bullhorn Text is a Mac app that drives Messages for you:

• Pull people from your Mac's Contacts, a spreadsheet, or a pasted list.
• Type (name) and each person sees their own first name.
• A writing check catches the typo before 60 people see it.
• History shows who each text was delivered to. If iMessage cannot reach someone, it resends as a regular text.
• Schedule it ("every Saturday at 7 PM") and quiet hours hold anything that would land at night.

Your list stays on your Mac, encrypted. No account, no cloud.

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