{"id":38642,"date":"2023-03-01T15:45:36","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T20:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=38642"},"modified":"2023-05-16T14:17:32","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T18:17:32","slug":"imessage-on-windows-via-microsofts-phone-link","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/01\/imessage-on-windows-via-microsofts-phone-link\/","title":{"rendered":"iMessage on Windows via Microsoft’s Phone Link"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chance Miller<\/a> (Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n

As reported by The Verge<\/em><\/a>, the Phone Link app for Windows is meant to mirror your phone on your PC for things like notifications, phone calls, and messages. The app has historically only supported Android devices, but that’s changing today with the addition of iPhone support.<\/p>

The new version of Phone Link for Windows uses Bluetooth to link a user’s iPhone to their Windows PC. It then “passes commands and messages” to the Messages app on that paired iPhone. This means you can send and receive all iPhone messages — text messages and iMessages — through the Phone Link app on your PC.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

[You] can’t see the full message history in conversations via the Phone Link app. Instead, you’ll only see messages that “have been sent or received using Phone Link.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It doesn’t support images or group messages, either. I guess this is similar to the limited iMessage support that CarPlay and Fitbit have.<\/p>\n

I wish there were an actual iMessage API so that third parties could work around the bugs and limiations of Apple’s Messages app.<\/p>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n