Gadgetnews wrote: Microsoft has finally made it possible to send messages with iPhone's iMessage service in Windows.
"Phone Link" is a program made by Microsoft to connect phones to Windows or so called mirroring. This program used to support Android phones, but now iPhone is also supported. Hence, sending messages through iMessage becomes possible for the first time in Windows. Now the question arises, how exactly does this feature work?
The new version of the Phone Link program for Windows 11 connects users' iPhones to their PCs via Bluetooth. Thanks to this program, it is possible to send and receive all iPhone messages, including SMS and iMessage messages on Windows.
However, since iMessage is a service specific to Apple's own products, this feature has limitations on Windows. For example, users cannot see the complete history of their chat messages with different people in the Fon Link program. They will only be shown messages that have been sent through this program.
Another example is that the Phone Link program no longer shows the color of the bubbles according to the type of message due to not recognizing the difference between SMS and iMessage messages; This means that there will be no traces of blue bubbles for iMessage and green bubbles for others. Of course, these are limitations that do not hinder the operation of the program, but the lack of the ability to send photos and participate in group messages is definitely noticeable to the user.
The ability to send messages with the iPhone iMessage service in Windows is currently available to a few members of the Microsoft Insider program. As expected, this feature will gradually be available to more users. After the possibility of running Android games in Windows 10 and 11, now sending messages with iPhone in Microsoft operating system is another useful feature for it.