Microsoft adds iMessage support on Windows
For years, we’ve been asking for Apple to bring iMessage to Android. Even tried multiple hacky methods to get it to work. But today, Microsoft decided to add it to Windows. But there’s a lot of limitations. This isn’t a big surprise, since this is Microsoft and not Apple.
Basically, iMessage is being added to the Phone Link functionality. So you’ll link your phone to your Windows PC using Bluetooth. After you have granted it some permissions on your iPhone, you’ll be able to send and receive text messages and iMessages from your PC using Phone Link.
There is no support for group chats or sending photos or videos. On top of that, it also lacks full message history for conversations and displays all sent and received messages as gray bubbles. Which means, no more green and blue bubbles. At least when you’re on your PC.
iPhone Support in Phone link will be available in a preview this week
It’s early days for this support, as Microsoft will be releasing it in a preview this week. But we don’t expect that it will get a whole lot better in future updates. This is because Apple doesn’t want to help make it better, as they would rather you use a Mac, instead of a PC.
If you’re part of the “small percentage” of Windows Insider members enrolled in the Dev, Beta or Release channels, you’ll be able to check this out. Microsoft says that the preview will be expanded over time.
Is it perfect? No. Definitely not. But it is better than nothing. Maybe this could help Apple bring iMessage support to Windows, and cooperate a bit more. After all, Apple does have a number of apps available on PC. Like Apple Music, iTunes and much more. So there is hope here.
For years, we’ve been asking for Apple to bring iMessage to Android. Even tried multiple hacky methods to get it to work. But today, Microsoft decided to add it to Windows. But there’s a lot of limitations. This isn’t a big surprise, since this is Microsoft and not Apple.
Basically, iMessage is being added to the Phone Link functionality. So you’ll link your phone to your Windows PC using Bluetooth. After you have granted it some permissions on your iPhone, you’ll be able to send and receive text messages and iMessages from your PC using Phone Link.
There is no support for group chats or sending photos or videos. On top of that, it also lacks full message history for conversations and displays all sent and received messages as gray bubbles. Which means, no more green and blue bubbles. At least when you’re on your PC.
iPhone Support in Phone link will be available in a preview this week
It’s early days for this support, as Microsoft will be releasing it in a preview this week. But we don’t expect that it will get a whole lot better in future updates. This is because Apple doesn’t want to help make it better, as they would rather you use a Mac, instead of a PC.
If you’re part of the “small percentage” of Windows Insider members enrolled in the Dev, Beta or Release channels, you’ll be able to check this out. Microsoft says that the preview will be expanded over time.
Is it perfect? No. Definitely not. But it is better than nothing. Maybe this could help Apple bring iMessage support to Windows, and cooperate a bit more. After all, Apple does have a number of apps available on PC. Like Apple Music, iTunes and much more. So there is hope here.
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