Phone Link widget Archives - TechGoing https://www.techgoing.com/tag/phone-link-widget/ Technology News and Reviews Wed, 01 Mar 2023 02:45:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 Phone Link app for Windows 11 Dev Preview now adds iPhone support https://www.techgoing.com/phone-link-app-for-windows-11-dev-preview-now-adds-iphone-support/ Wed, 01 Mar 2023 02:45:25 +0000 https://www.techgoing.com/?p=74764 Microsoft today announced that it has added iPhone support to the Phone Link app for the Windows 11 platform. Users can make and receive calls, send and receive text messages, and view iPhone notifications directly on their PCs after connecting their PCs to their iPhones through the app. The Phone Link app is only initially […]

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]]> Microsoft today announced that it has added iPhone support to the Phone Link app for the Windows 11 platform. Users can make and receive calls, send and receive text messages, and view iPhone notifications directly on their PCs after connecting their PCs to their iPhones through the app.

The Phone Link app is only initially supporting iPhone, and support for iMessage is still limited. Users can send and receive iMessages and SMS text messages through Phone Link, but there is no support for group chats or sending photos and videos.

Tom Warren of The Verge that Phone Link also lacks a full message history of conversations, and all incoming and outgoing messages are shown as gray bubbles, meaning users can’t distinguish between iMessage and SMS text messages.

As reminded by users, this feature is currently limited to the Win11 Dev Channel Preview.

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]]> Microsoft Windows 11 adds Phone Link widget: display phone notifications and battery status, etc. https://www.techgoing.com/microsoft-windows-11-adds-phone-link-widget-display-phone-notifications-and-battery-status-etc/ Fri, 27 Jan 2023 07:16:12 +0000 https://www.techgoing.com/?p=67171 Microsoft Windows 11 users are finally getting more widgets. the Messenger app recently became the first third-party widget to enter the Microsoft Store, and now Microsoft is offering a new widget for users who use the Phone Link app in the Dev channel. Once the Phone Link app version 1.23011.73.0 or higher is installed from […]

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]]> Microsoft Windows 11 users are finally getting more widgets. the Messenger app recently became the first third-party widget to enter the Microsoft Store, and now Microsoft is offering a new widget for users who use the Phone Link app in the Dev channel.

Once the Phone Link app version 1.23011.73.0 or higher is installed from the Microsoft Store, users can add the Phone Link widget, which offers three sizes to view notifications and various status indicators such as battery level, network, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi. Clicking on a message on the widget will launch the Phone Link app and take you to the notifications section.

Microsoft is starting to add more useful widgets to the OS, rather than just using the area to promote MSN and various campaigns. However, the substantive problem remains the same: accessing widgets requires additional actions such as clicking, shortcutting, or hovering the cursor over the widget icon. Some users see no difference between opening a Windows widget to view Phone Link notifications and launching the app from the taskbar.

While Microsoft is still reluctant to turn Windows 11 widgets into Windows 7-era gadgets, the company is at least trying to make the Windows widget ecosystem better with third-party support and more first-party widgets.

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