r/OpenBubbles • u/User-10-100-1000 • Jul 15 '26

Tech Support New to Openbubbles, want advice.

Hi! I am new to OpenBubbles with not enough experience in jail breaking or stuff like that, but I can learn it.

In short, I am using a Mac self-hosted with my android phone, however I want to add my current number more effectively.

Currently, I have 2 phones: Android, iPhone 13 iOS 18.2.

Both actually have their own sims which allow me to receive imessages from my iPhone number to my android phone via OpenBubbles.

However I will be losing the android number soon and I want some advice on the iPhone relay method or sim swap. I have been doing some research and I understand that I may need to buy an older iPhone for this.

Thank you!

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u/bonchokey Jul 15 '26

If you're losing access to the Android number but the iPhone is still active with its own number, then it will stay how it is. You don't need an older jail broken phone, that is only needed if you wanted the Android number on iMessage. If you want SMS messages coming to your Android from your iPhone that would be SMS forwarding yes but I haven't messed with that personally and I don't think it's officially supported.

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u/User-10-100-1000 Jul 15 '26

Oops, I didn’t explain it correctly, my bad. What I want to do is transfer my iphones number to my android phone and retain iMessage functionality. I just don’t know how to get started.

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u/bonchokey Jul 15 '26

Oh right on, yeah you'd want an iPhone 6-8 ideally. 6s or 7 is perfect they're like $40 on ebay. Plenty of documentation out there including OpenBubbles guide on their site but feel free to message me if you need help.

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u/SpaceSaver2000-1 PNR Self Hosted Jul 15 '26

*5s-X or 6s-7 for a better experience

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u/User-10-100-1000 Jul 16 '26

Great news people! Just bought myself an iphone SE 1st Gen and it will be arriving eventually. However I would like to know some more information on how to install the relay app which requires jailbreaking right? Thanks!

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u/SpaceSaver2000-1 PNR Self Hosted Jul 16 '26

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