Guide · Military families

Staying reachable through a PCS move or deployment.

A military family's phone situation rarely holds still: a PCS move means new area, sometimes a new carrier, phones getting swapped, upgraded, or handed down to a kid mid-move. A deployment adds long stretches of limited, shared, or restricted device access. Here's what actually helps keep one number working through all of it.

1

Decouple the number from any single phone

The number that matters, the one school, the doctor's office, and extended family already have, shouldn't be hostage to whichever device happens to be in someone's pocket that week. Keeping it in the cloud rather than on one SIM means it survives a phone getting lost during the move, handed down, or left behind entirely.

2

Plan for shared and borrowed devices during deployment

Personal phone access during deployment is often limited to short windows on a shared computer or a borrowed device at an MWR center, not a guarantee of your own phone in hand. Signing in on whatever device is available, checking messages, and signing back out when the window closes matters more than having your own phone with you.

3

Keep the spouse or family point of contact stable

The family member managing everything during a deployment, school enrollment, medical appointments, the movers, is usually the one whose phone situation is most in flux. Giving that person a number that keeps working across whatever device they're using that week removes one variable from an already full plate.

4

Be honest about what this does and doesn't cover

This needs internet access, the same as any messaging app. It isn't a way around unit device policy, and it won't help in a genuine connectivity blackout. What it solves is the far more common situation: a family juggling phones through a move or a deployment, needing the same number to keep working no matter which device is available that day.

If a phone is being handed down to a kid as part of the move, sign out of it first. MobileyMe wipes the number, contacts, and message history from any device the moment you log out, so a hand-me-down phone doesn't carry the old line along with it.
One number, whichever device is around

Built for exactly this kind of moving target.

MobileyMe keeps your number, contacts, and messages in the cloud rather than tied to one phone. Sign in on whatever device you have access to, whether that's a new phone after a PCS move or a shared computer during a deployment window, and it's there. Sign out and nothing stays behind.

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Questions people ask

Can I use MobileyMe if my phone is restricted or unavailable during deployment?
MobileyMe needs internet access to work, the same as any messaging app, so it is not a way around unit device policy or a genuine connectivity blackout. What it covers is the more common gap: checking messages from a shared or borrowed device during a limited connectivity window, without needing your own phone on you.

What happens to our number during a PCS move?
Nothing has to happen to it. Because MobileyMe keeps the number, contacts, and messages in the cloud rather than tied to one SIM or handset, a family can keep using the same number through a move even if phones get swapped, upgraded, or handed down to a kid along the way.

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