Phone link for iOS now available for Windows 11

5/16/23:

Phone Link app for iOS is now available to all users on the Retail Channel of Windows 11.

Is the app fully updated and you are on Windows 11?

I do NOT see an iPhone option. Only Android. What the heck??!?!

Please make sure you have the latest updates, e.g. Windows 11.

Hope that helps!

I've used the Phone Link for iOS for a couple days now and have the following comments:

1. It doesn't sync the message history at all. If the program shuts down and you restart it, you lose the history of everything you sent and received even in the previous session, not to mention things that were in the conversation long ago. Hopefully this is coming as a future feature update.

2. There doesn't seem to be a way to select the audio output device for phone calls. I have desktop speakers and a speakerphone that sits on my desk. When a call come in, the audio comes out of the desktop speakers, which the microphone on the speakerphone picks up and my callers hear an echo.

3. You can get completely flooded with notifications. I have Outlook desktop running all the time. So if an email comes in, my phone sitting in my charger will vibrate, then I'll get a notification through Phone Link, finally Outlook will give me a notification. It would be nice to be able to customise which notifications come through, because I might not want the Outlook notifications, but I might still want to get the notifications from my home security system or WhatsApp.

4. It is sometimes slow. The phone will sometime regsiter that a message came in and it takes 15-20 minutes before it shows up in Phone Link.

Overall, I think it has the potential to be a really solid program. I use a remote connection into a Mac Mini to get my iMessage on my PC working right now and I would say that Phone Link is not quite ready to replace that. Give it another year of development and maybe. Good start. Keep working at it!

Hello,

I have set up my phone and can send messages. However, I cannot receive them.

Thank you!

Does Phone Link for iOS sync photos? I can't seem to find that option in settings.

Because of Apple's closed system, Phone Link for iOS has to do its magic via Bluetooth. Thus, there is not syncing of the entire message history; you get what has happened while the app is running.

You can definitely customize notifications. I disabled the ones for my home security system, for example, because there are too many notifications. Just hover to the top-right corner of the message tile, click on the ellipsis, then click "Turn off notifications from <source>".

I haven't had any lag issues, thankfully; notifications are simultaneous on the phone and the app.

It's really helpful thanks microsoft....

Anyone have success getting message to come in from I-Phone to phone link?

Another **** useless product by Microsoft. The iPhone spent 20 minutes trying connect. Then the asinine QR code didn't work. Who was the moron who came up with that **** idea?