Sending an SMS message to a phone number - Amazon Chime

Sending an SMS message to a phone number

If your Amazon Chime administrator enables SMS messages for your account, you can send an SMS message to a phone number in your contacts.

To send a message
  1. From the Amazon Chime client, choose Message.

  2. Do one of the following:

    • For a new contact, enter the country code and phone number to call, without any dashes. For example, +12065550100. Choose Create a new contact.

    • For an existing contact, search for and select the contact.

  3. Enter your message. Press Enter to send it.

An SMS message is sent to the phone number, and a chat conversation between you and the recipient opens in Amazon Chime. To call the chat recipient, choose the phone icon in the chat conversation.

Note

Text messaging to and from short codes is not supported.

To send an SMS message to a phone number from your history
  1. Do one of the following:

    • From the Amazon Chime desktop client or web app, under Meetings and Calls, choose Call history.

    • From the Amazon Chime mobile app, choose Calls.

  2. Select the phone number or contact to open the actions menu.

  3. Choose Message.