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While working, everything can be a distraction: Twitter, email, your co-workers and texts from iMessage, of course. Answering your friends‘ texts will take you out of your workflow and after that, it takes minutes to get back into it.

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That’s why I created the Alfred workflow „iMessage to Friend“, which allows you to directly write and send a message to a friend from within Alfred. Just hit Alfred’s hotkey, enter your friends (nick)name, write a message, hit enter and you’re done. No more clicking and application switching required. In order to use workflows you will need the Powerpack version of Alfred v2 or higher.

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Download

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\"\"iMessage to Friend.alfredworkflow
Version 1.3, 08.05.2021
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If you are looking for the old extension for Alfred v1 click here.

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Changelog

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1.3 (08.05.2021): Add compatibility with macOS 11.0 Big Sur.
\n1.2 (05.10.2013): Add compatibility with Alfred v2 and higher.
\n1.1 (05.01.2013): Fixed bug in which the extension didn’t work properly, if your iCloud account isn’t the first account in iMessage’s account list. (thanks to @Cinematze for reporting)
\n1.0 (05.12.2012): First release of iMessage to Friend.

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Known issues

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If you have more than one iCloud account enabled in iMessage, the workflow will only work with the first one. Group chats aren’t possible, because they aren’t supported through iMessage’s AppleScript.

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Installation

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After you have installed/imported the workflow, you\u00b4ll have to replace two things:

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1. Replace Friend1 (and so on) in the trigger’s keyword, title and subtext field with your friend\u00b4s (nick)name, e.g. BFF or kira:

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2. Replace FRIEND1_IMESSAGE in the corresponding AppleScript action with your friend\u00b4s phone number or email address, e.g. 00491501234567 (country code + prefix + number) or friend@icloud.com. Keep in mind that the number or email address must be activated for iMessage and don’t remove the quotation marks:

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Repeat these steps for your other friends. If you have more than five friends, feel free to add more by copying the trigger and actions.

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Now you’re ready to go.

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How to use it

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If your friend\u00b4s name is Kira and you\u00b4ve entered her phone number or email address and changed the corresponding keyword to „kira“, hit your hotkey to open/enter Alfred and type something like:

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kira Hello Kira, how are you?

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This will send an iMessage with the text „Hello Kira, how are you?“ to Kira’s iMessage-enabled phone number or email address. It’s that simple.

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Feedback

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Feel free to leave a comment, if you have a question, discovered a bug or just want to say hi. You can also contact me on Twitter.

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