So Intel has released its Unison app that lets you easily transfer files and photos between iOS and Windows 11. Yay, no more having to send to OneDrive as an intermediary! But the best feature is that you can send/receive iMessages. So finally, texting from your PC keyboard without having to run Mac OS in a VM just to get iMessage!
It’s ostensibly for Intel Evo laptops, but it works fine on my homebuilt Asus desktop and a friend even installed it on his AMD rig without issue.
Grab the PC client from here; there’s a QR code during setup to get the iOS companion app.
It also works on Android, but I’d think Android people would just use the Windows Phone Link app.
Didn’t work for me, bluetooth pairing is broken. Some people say it works for them, so give it a shot. I use Airmessage with a macOS VM for iMessage anyway.
Yep, I tried to install it on my laptop and the Bluetooth pairing also failed there. Works fine on my desktop, but the desktop has an Intel Bluetooth/Wi-Fi card, where the Asus laptop has some generic Bluetooth adapter inside.
It’s a new OEM utility designed to be bundled with new PCs, so it makes sense it’d be designed for the current operating system.
No compelling reason not to upgrade to Win 11 (once you revert their stupid taskbar redesign) if your CPU supports it, but that’s a different topic. :)
I think it seems to be up and running on my Ryzen-based laptop? Sent an iMessage to someone from my laptop, it appeared in iMessage on my phone, and the recipient successfully got it.
Okay, so this works fairly well on my 11th-gen EVO laptop, even though it is technically unsupported. However, it doesn’t remember or load any of my SMS conversations.
It did work when my sister texted me last night, and I was able to reply to her. But when I loaded up my laptop this morning that conversation is no longer there. That section is just empty.
