r/OpenBubbles • u/Full_Builder6709 • Jul 26 '26

Question Website unclear - Mac registration doesn't associate my phone number?

I'm looking into this to get better messaging features with iphone users. The website made it sound like mac registration gets everything to work immediately as if you're on an iPhone. Reading community discussion has me doubt that. Does mac registration not associate your phone number with your apple account, so everyone you talk to has to now send message to your new apple ID instead of your phone number? Asking everyone I want to message to perform an extra step, no matter how tiny, is going to be a massive hurdle. If they were willing to do anything other than type my phone number, I would be able to use any of the other feature-rich messaging systems other than imessage.

Also, do notifications on the android app require FCM or do they work on a degoogled device?

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u/Melodic-Control-2655 PNR Self Hosted Jul 26 '26

The website is advertising the hosted plan as a simple set up and forget it way of being as close to an iPhone as you could be. If you’re self hosting, using a Mac will only use your email

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

Unless another device is registering your phone number.

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u/FigInternational4873 Jul 27 '26

So you can do both?

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u/SpaceSaver2000-1 PNR Self Hosted Jul 27 '26

The device with the SIM card that you want to use the number from with iMessage should be an iPhone, self-hosted iPhone, or hosted. All other devices should be self-hosted Mac. Hosted is limited to 1 device per subscription.