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apps that give you a phone number?

By Dawn 👩🏻‍🦯, 13 December, 2020

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Hello! I have a few questions for you all.

Can anyone recommend an app that gives you a phone number that you can receive texts? I do not have a cell phone and do not have the resources to obtain one. But I'd like to have a phone number to be able to receive texts to. I've tried Text Me, Text Now, and I think Text Free and had varying degrees of accessibility. The one you couldn't get to the inbox the button was dimmed. I'd like to have this for accounts and apps that that require a phone number to create an account and also for 2fator authentication. Is it possible to achieve @ least 1 of these goals with an app like this? Is there an a accessible app of this type out there? I appreciate your help! Thank you in advance!

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Google Voice

By Travis Roth

2 years 5 months ago

If you are elligible I suggest Google Voice. The iOS app works ok last I checked, and there is a website as well though not as great. I'm not sure of the elligibility however, I'm sorry. It is possible it is a U.S. only service.

Talkatone

By Betsy

2 years 5 months ago

Talkatone seems to work well with Voiceover. I can send and receive calls and texts on my ipad with it. It's free with ads or you can pay for an ad-free version. I use Google Voice too but I think when I'm sending a text or call it requires a cellular phone account to go through.

Thank you

By Dawn 👩🏻‍🦯

2 years 5 months ago

In reply to Talkatone by Betsy

Thank you so much!

I just got it, and it seems to work great with VO. Only issue I had was with the verification code. But Seeing AI. read it from a screenshot I took. Which I was kind of surprised about! But other than that, I love this app! I can’t wait to start using it for account verification codes!

And you’re right. You do need a second phone number for Google voice to go through. Because I looked into it. And thought about using it.

Been so long

By Betsy

2 years 5 months ago

In reply to Thank you by Dawn 👩🏻‍🦯

It's been many years since I started using Talkatone I don't remember how the setup went. But I had way more vision back then so I'm sure it was easy for me. Its an awesome app, very reliable. I do have an iPhone with Tracfone minutes but since I'm almost always home it's just easier to use Talkatone on my iPad.

Cant verify

By MsHollyWeezy

2 years 5 months ago

You must have been lucky with getting the code to verify. I cant get it to work. I did once and i was signed in. It signed me out dont know y. Now i cant get nothing to read the code..

I wonder

By Dawn 👩🏻‍🦯

2 years 5 months ago

In reply to Cant verify by MsHollyWeezy

Have you tried restarting your device? Only reason I ask is I had a authorization issue come up yesterday. And restarting the app didn’t work. But once I restarted the device it was fine. I would at least make an attempt at it. Also I consider myself lucky that seeing AI read the code to me when it captured it. Also, if there’s an option to get another code maybe try that. And if you can’t get anything, there should be a link in the email. If there is click on it. And then that’ll make the image come up. And then you can press your screenshot shortcut. And run it through your recognition app of choice

I don’t have

By Dawn 👩🏻‍🦯

2 years 5 months ago

In reply to Been so long by Betsy

I don’t have a cell phone. So I am either using my house phone or nothing. But I need a phone number to have a verification code. Mainly for Microsoft teams. Because I’m doing webinars with Braille institute. And that’s what they use. But I might need it for other wraps as well. I’m still debating whether I want to use it for two factor authentication stuff.

i will give it a try

By MsHollyWeezy

2 years 5 months ago

In reply to I wonder by Dawn 👩🏻‍🦯

thank u. I will give it all a try and see what comes up. I think when I had to restart my phone is what logged me out. at least that is what im thinking. and when I used seeing AI. it read the screenshot but there was no code in it at all.

Also try

By Dawn 👩🏻‍🦯

2 years 5 months ago

In reply to i will give it a try by MsHollyWeezy

If all else fails, you can try and hit the back button and get another code that way. Your email address will still stay in that field. So you won’t have to worry about Reagan putting it. And that doesn’t work, their tech-support is great. If it gives you an option to contact support, hit that button. That will put the issue or at least the message that you’re getting in an email. So you won’t even have to take that out. I’m sorry you’re having issues. I hope at least a little bit of what I said helped you.

I don't think Seeing AI will help

By Betsy

2 years 5 months ago

The code that is sent is not plain text, it looks like one of those horrid captcha things. Something else worth trying if things seem stuck with the app is to delete the app from your device then re-install it.

Seeing Ai.

By Dawn 👩🏻‍🦯

2 years 5 months ago

In reply to I don't think Seeing AI will help by Betsy

I don't know. All I know is yes the code was an image but it had text in it. The numbers that was the code. Maybe it was pure dumb luck that I got it to work. If that's the case then I'm cting my lucky stars. It doesn't hurt to try though.
But I do agree that reenstalling the app might clear things up.

text now

By Dennis Long

3 months ago

have you tried text now?

Try Burner. It’s VO friendly

By Ash Rein

2 months 1 week ago

The Burner app is actually pretty great with voiceover. The app developer specifically make updates to make it more accessible with voiceover and even mentioned it in one of their most recent update descriptions. It’s also pretty reasonably priced.

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