Microsoft has began testing some enhancements to its Cellphone Hyperlink app for iPhone customers. Home windows Insiders can now check out a brand new technique to share a file from an iPhone to a PC and vice versa, making the expertise a little bit extra like file sharing with an Android gadget.
Home windows Insiders can obtain the most recent Cellphone Hyperlink app replace, model 1.24112.89.0 or larger, and it’ll embody a brand new setup dialog to allow sharing recordsdata between iPhones and PCs. The sharing works by utilizing the share sheet on iOS to ship recordsdata to the “Hyperlink to Home windows” app, which then lets you choose a Home windows gadget to share the file with.
On a Home windows PC you can even share native recordsdata by proper clicking on a file and deciding on share after which “my cellphone” to get a file out of your PC to your iPhone.
Microsoft has been step by step enhancing its Cellphone Hyperlink app for each iOS and Android lately, however the iOS model remains to be very restricted due to Apple’s OS restrictions. Final yr Microsoft did handle to replace Cellphone Hyperlink with the power to ship and obtain messages through iMessage. Even this integration is restricted although, solely supporting sending and receiving messages to single contacts and never teams (through iMessage).
You continue to can’t use the Cellphone Hyperlink app to reflect cellphone apps onto your PC like you may with Android, and you must have the app open for messages to be despatched over iMessage as Microsoft is utilizing a Bluetooth and system notifications workaround to learn ship messages.
The most recent file sharing replace is stay now for Home windows Insiders and will begin rolling out to all Cellphone Hyperlink customers within the coming months.
