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Forward SMS
Forwards selected incoming iPhone text messages to email, team chat, or another phone.
What it is
Forward SMS is an iPhone app that works with Apple's Shortcuts app to send incoming text messages to destinations such as email, Slack, Microsoft Teams, and another phone. You set up the message trigger and destination so selected notifications can reach the people handling the work.
Ways to use it
Ideas from real executive operations work. Take the ones that fit.
- Send a one-time sign-in code from an executive's shared account to the assistant authorized to complete the task.
- Send selected travel alerts to the colleague coordinating an executive's itinerary.
- Route business payment notifications to the authorized finance contact.
- Send selected customer text requests to the team member covering the account.
- Route office delivery texts to the person receiving the shipment.
Our take
Useful when a business notification reaches one person's phone but somebody else needs to act on it. Start with a specific sender and destination, test delivery, and keep a backup contact. Avoid forwarding the whole inbox just to solve one recurring access problem.