Microsoft starts testing iPhone file sharing for Windows PCs

Microsoft has started investigating immoderate improvements to its Phone Link app for iPhone users. Windows Insiders can present effort out a caller mode to stock a record from an iPhone to a PC and vice versa, making the acquisition a small much similar record sharing with an Android device.

Windows Insiders tin download the latest Phone Link app update, mentation 1.24112.89.0 oregon higher, and it volition see a caller setup dialog to alteration sharing files betwixt iPhones and PCs. The sharing works by utilizing the stock expanse connected iOS to nonstop files to the “Link to Windows” app, which past lets you prime a Windows instrumentality to stock the record with.

On a Windows PC you tin besides stock section files by close clicking connected a record and selecting stock and past “my phone” to get a record from your PC to your iPhone.

Microsoft has been gradually improving its Phone Link app for some iOS and Android successful caller years, but the iOS mentation is inactive precise constricted acknowledgment to Apple’s OS restrictions. Last twelvemonth Microsoft did negociate to update Phone Link with the quality to nonstop and person messages via iMessage. Even this integration is constricted though, lone supporting sending and receiving messages to azygous contacts and not groups (via iMessage).

You inactive can’t usage the Phone Link app to reflector telephone apps onto your PC similar you tin with Android, and you person to person the app unfastened for messages to beryllium sent implicit iMessage arsenic Microsoft is utilizing a Bluetooth and strategy notifications workaround to work nonstop messages.

The latest record sharing update is unrecorded present for Windows Insiders and should commencement rolling retired to each Phone Link users successful the coming months.