Following up on an announcement made in February, Microsoft on Tuesday said its rollout of Telephone Hyperlink for iOS on Home windows 11. For iPhone customers who additionally use a Home windows PC as their primary pc, Telephone Hyperlink on Home windows 11 will let customers entry iMessage on the iPhone and carry out fundamental chat capabilities.
Microsoft gives particulars on the way it will work in its Home windows Insider Weblog. The Telephone Hyperlink app, which beforehand used Bluetooth to attach solely to Android telephones, can have a brand new choice for the iPhone. As soon as a connection is established and the setup is carried out, customers can have fundamental assist for accessing contacts, making calls, and utilizing the iPhone’s Messages for textual content conversations.
Telephone Hyperlink for iOS requires an iPhone with iOS 14 or later, Home windows 11 on the PC, and a Bluetooth connection between the PC and the iPhone. Microsoft notes that the iPad and Mac don’t work with Telephone Hyperlink–because the app’s identify says, it’s for telephones solely. Microsoft is rolling out Telephone Hyperlink over the following a number of weeks to its world market, so when you can’t get it now, attempt once more at a later time.
The assist for Messages doesn’t go a lot past one-on-one interactions. In keeping with the Microsoft weblog publish, group messaging just isn’t supported, and also you will be unable to ship photos, audio, or video. In an interview with The Verge, Microsoft’s Yusuf Mehdi additionally factors out that Telephone Hyperlink can’t inform the distinction between a typical textual content message and one despatched by means of iMessage–so no inexperienced or blue chat bubbles. Additionally, Telephone Hyperlink can see solely messages that it has despatched and obtained, so it is not going to show the total chat historical past on an iPhone.
Microsoft didn’t point out if iMessage options reminiscent of enhancing or unsending messages, or the bubble and display results can be obtainable, however it’s protected to imagine that they gained’t be. Nonetheless, for the very giant variety of iPhone customers who additionally use Home windows PCs as their primary pc, it’s one other welcome new characteristic to permit for entry to Apple units and providers. Final November, Microsoft added to iCloud Photographs entry to the Home windows 11 Photographs app. Microsoft additionally has obtainable preview variations of the Apple Music and Apple TV apps for Home windows; these apps ought to be finalized later this yr.
