Looking for an app that allows me to call as if I'm my other number. Has anyone found something reliable and privacy protecting?
Context: tried fully switching from iPhone iMessage to grapheneOS, but friends and fam all use iMessage and the photo/video quality degradation was intolerable. It sucks that apple gate keeps decent message photo quality but there's nothing I can do about it.
They all begged me to switch back so my compromise was to keep my old number in a cheap plan with my old iPhone, disable everything I could and leave it at home 24/7. I set up a BlueBubbles server on an old wiped macbook that I could access all normal texting from on my new phone, and then forwarded all calls to my new GrapheneOS number.
This gives me normal call receiving and iMessage/SMS texting capability, but if I want to make it look like I'm calling from my "public" number I have to do it from home or with my old phone. Most of the time its not a problem as my closest friends have my alternate number too, but there's been a couple inconvenient scenarios that have popped up.