Auto-reply texts from Google Voice number?

February 14, 2017 6:43 AM

I have stopped using my Google voice number as my main number, but lots of folks still text me on it, despite having been told my new number. Is there a way to set up an automatic reply to tell them to text the new number instead?
posted by ocherdraco to Computers & Internet (3 answers total)

Maybe something like this IFTTT script would work. I believe it will require you to have your GV messages sent to your Gmail inbox.
posted by davidvanb at 6:58 AM on February 14, 2017

If you direct your text messages to your gmail, you can create an incoming mail filter to reply to only those messages like in this zdnet article.

I just have all my texts for different personal lines come into the same app so I can change the phone number I reply from and eventually everyone using my old number stopped doing it because I would only ever reply from my new number.
posted by mattamatic at 7:17 AM on February 14, 2017

This is not an answer to the question you asked, but I wanted to make sure that you have this information. The google voice number is yours and you can port it out to another carrier.
posted by WizKid at 8:01 AM on February 14, 2017