May 11, 2025
I haven't used Voice in a while and can't find my current phone number
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May 11, 2025
Hello Kel 7266, thanks for your question and welcome to the free volunteer-staffed consumer version Google Voice forum.
I'd actually like to change my number to one that I port in, but all I see is the option to Link a Number
This is the "new way" to port in a cell number to your Google Voice account. You must have a Google number already on your account, then you'll see the option to port in a cell telephone number.
If your old Google number were available to you, you'd have seen an offer to restore it to your account. Now you'll have to select any available number from the pool of available numbers.
You'll need a cell telephone (that has never been used to select any Google number) to select and verify your new number.
Once you get an available number, you'll see a new free offer you might not have expected. You can keep your Google number as a second Google number in addition to the cell number you're porting in. In the past you had to pay an additional $20 to keep the existing Google number past a 90 day waiting period. Now keeping the number is free, but you have to click to keep it before the passage of 90 days or Google will remove it.
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May 11, 2025
Hello Kel 7266, thanks for your question and welcome to the free volunteer-staffed consumer version Google Voice forum.
I'd actually like to change my number to one that I port in, but all I see is the option to Link a Number
This is the "new way" to port in a cell number to your Google Voice account. You must have a Google number already on your account, then you'll see the option to port in a cell telephone number.
If your old Google number were available to you, you'd have seen an offer to restore it to your account. Now you'll have to select any available number from the pool of available numbers.
You'll need a cell telephone (that has never been used to select any Google number) to select and verify your new number.
Once you get an available number, you'll see a new free offer you might not have expected. You can keep your Google number as a second Google number in addition to the cell number you're porting in. In the past you had to pay an additional $20 to keep the existing Google number past a 90 day waiting period. Now keeping the number is free, but you have to click to keep it before the passage of 90 days or Google will remove it.
May 12, 2025
However, it's also not showing me the option to restore a number, to select a number, or to port in a number. It's showing me I can LINK to a number, but that looks more like call forwarding.
Am I looking in the wrong place?
Thanks,
Kel