How to link your smartphone with Windows 11

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WINDOWS 11 By Lance Whitney Connecting your iPhone or Android phone to Windows 11 lets you make phone calls, send texts, and view notifications direct
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Seems like a handy tool. Turns out our smartphone, a Doro 8035, is too old. It runs Android 7.1.2 and it cannot run the ‘Link to Windows’ app…..

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Why should I give Microsoft access and harvest my iPhone’s personnel data ?

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Bill C., Mark

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Lance:

Thanks for this “how-to” !

I have been hoping that Phone Link would evolve to support synchronization of contacts and calendar between Outlook and the iPhone. I have been using iTunes to sync, but it appears that iTunes may be going end-of-life sometime soon since Apple has released a new suite of software for Windows OS. Unfortunately I don’t see a new sync. tool.

I have been using iTunes to sync, but it appears that it may be going end-of-life sometime soon since Apple has released a new suite of software for Windows OS. Unfortunately I don’t see a new sync. tool.

This question is somewhat off-topic, so feel free to ignore me, but if you are aware of any new solutions for sync-ing Outlook to the iPhone I’d be much appreciative.

Thanks,
Jim

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Apple has a new version of iCloud for Windows that is supposed to be a big improvement over the older version. And it offers Outlook calendar and contact syncing. I haven’t actually tried the syncing yet, but you may want to give it a shot – https://support.apple.com/en-us/103232

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Jim Wooden

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I missed the iCloud for Windows announcement – THANKS for leading me to that!
One of the release notes says:

• Resolves contact and calendar syncing problems with Outlook
(requires the latest version of Windows 11, version 22H2 or later).

That strikes me as odd, I’m still on W10 and had planned to stick with it until it gets close to end-of-support….

Always something….  :-/

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I’ve been using Phone Link with my Android phone for months.  It starts with windows, and I find it quite handy.

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Alex5723 wrote:

Why should I give Microsoft access and harvest my iPhone’s personnel data ?

That was my first thought as I started the article.

However, even if one is cautious about such a possibility, another issue on disclosure of info on a phone has been making the headlines.  Here is a Malwarebytes blog post on what car makers hoover up from your phone.

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/podcast/2023/09/what-does-a-car-need-to-know-about-your-sex-life

Before I read this article, with my newest vehicle, I setup and paired my iPhone to the car via Bluetooth.  The basic pairing included the phone and contact lists.  However, I found it also included my recent and missed calls, all front on center on the iPad-like dash.

Fortunately, I did not authorize it to do text messages.  After an update of the car software or the iPhone, I needed to re-pair the Bluetooth and decided to see what text messages were like.  They too are front and center for all to read, and even worse pop-up automatically creating a distraction, especially it the original text was a group text that leads to text-fest storm.  I rapidly deleted the iPhone and re-paired it with just telephone calling.

It is bad enough to constantly have to research apps to see what they they want to access, but the car integrations potentially far surpass just PCs and phones, as they can also save and potentially share verbal conversations.

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I’m not interested in doing this but that article looked like it took a good deal of work to put together.

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I couldn’t get to the step to sync my information with my iPhone 14/iOS 18.1. At that point, my iPhone is showing as a Bluetooth-connected device in Windows Settings, and my PC is showing in the list of paired devices on my iPhone. If I click the three dots and choose “Remove Device” in Windows Settings, the icon shows “Removing Device” for a few seconds, then returns to “Connected.” On the iPhone, if I try to delete the PC from the Bluetooth-connected devices, the label changes to some other name (likely another Bluetooth-connected device on the premises), but there is no change in connectivity or behavior. I cannot delete the Phone Link (it reads “Link to Windows” in my app list) app on my iPhone. I can scroll to its listing and tap it to see its switch settings for Bluetooth, Camera, Siri, Search, and Cellular Data (I’ve tried switching them all to “off” with no change in behavior), but I can’t delete the app. Trying to slide its listing to the left to show a trash can (as with most other iPhone apps that are delete-able shows nothing. It behaves as if the Phone Link app is part of the OS.

As it is, I can get all PC and iPhone sounds to run through a Bluetooth-connected headset. This was possible before I introduced the updated version of Phone Link into the mix, as I first paired the headset with the PC. The difference is that I can also talk and listen on phone calls made on the iPhone, although I cannot see any access to a dialpad, hold/disconnect buttons, a contacts list, or other phone controls. I did try to dial a number through Outlook, but got an error message of “No Microsoft telephony services are installed.”

I also have no PC capability for reading or sending text messages.

I have all but decided that Phone Link is just not going to work for me, but I’d be happy to try any other solutions you might have to offer.

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Try force removing Phone Link from your PC using 3rd party free apps like : Geekuninstaller, HiBit uninstaller, Revo uninstaller..

On the iPhone press and hold the app and select remove.

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