Your iMessages, on your work Mac
If your work Mac can't sign in to your own Apple ID, Waggle can share iMessage from a Mac at home. Your home Mac shares its iMessage bee; the work Mac shows it as iMessage from another Mac: chats, photos, replies and read status, end-to-end encrypted through the Waggle Relay.
How it works
- On your home Mac. Add an iMessage bee and give Waggle Full Disk Access (and Accessibility, for group chats). Then right-click it → Share with Another Mac… and turn on sharing. Copy the pairing code.
- On your work Mac. Click the hexagon → Add a Bee → iMessage from another Mac, type the code and click Pair.
- Keep the home Mac on. It must stay awake, online and running Waggle. The guide shows how, in about 5 minutes.
Step by step, with what success looks like: the guide.
What you get
- New messages arrive within a second or two.
- Photos and files up to 40 MB.
- Reading a chat on the work Mac marks it read on the home Mac and your iPhone (once the home Mac is unlocked, if it was locked).
- End-to-end encrypted: the relay only ever sees ciphertext, and the pairing code is the key.
- Texts (SMS) too, if your iPhone forwards them to the home Mac.
Check your employer's policy first. Some organisations don't allow personal messaging or outside services on work Macs. If yours doesn't, please don't use this there. Waggle never tries to get round an organisation's security controls.
Needs a licence. iMessage on another Mac needs Worker Bees or Whole Hive (or the trial): Free Bee works on one Mac only. With Worker Bees, iMessage is one of your 3 bee types.
Price and requirements
Every bee is free for 14 days on each Mac, with no card and no account. After that, your first bee is free on one Mac. Worker Bees is £12.99 for any 3 bees and Whole Hive is £24.99 for every bee, each on up to 3 Macs. Both are paid once and include 12 months of Updates & Relay, then £9.99 per 12 months if you want it, with no automatic payments. See Pricing.
A Mac with Apple silicon and macOS 14 (Sonoma) or newer.
Questions
Can I see my iMessages on another Mac?
Yes, with a licence or during the trial. The Mac signed in to Messages shares its iMessage bee, end-to-end encrypted. See FAQs.
What happens if the home Mac is off?
The work Mac's bee shows "offline" within about 6 minutes (sooner if you send something) and keeps showing the copy it already has.
Why does Messages flash up when I read a chat?
Apple doesn't let other apps mark messages read, so Waggle shows the chat in Messages for about a second, then puts Messages back as it was.
What does it cost?
iMessage on another Mac is part of Updates & Relay: included for 12 months with Worker Bees (£12.99) or Whole Hive (£24.99), then £9.99 per 12 months if you want it.
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