{"id":221525,"date":"2026-03-09T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/09\/using-an-iphone-windows-pc-heres-how-i-make-it-work-and-what-id-change\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T07:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T11:35:08","slug":"using-an-iphone-windows-pc-heres-how-i-make-it-work-and-what-id-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/09\/using-an-iphone-windows-pc-heres-how-i-make-it-work-and-what-id-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Using An iPhone &#038; Windows PC? Here&#8217;s How I Make It Work (And What I&#8217;d Change)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slashgear.com\/2116098\/how-use-iphone-with-windows-pc-apps-need-what-change\/\">Using An iPhone &#038; Windows PC? Here&#8217;s How I Make It Work (And What I&#8217;d Change)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slashgear.com\/2116098\/how-use-iphone-with-windows-pc-apps-need-what-change\/\">https:\/\/www.slashgear.com\/2116098\/how-use-iphone-with-windows-pc-apps-need-what-change\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-09 07:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.slashgear.com\">www.slashgear.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <span class=\"gallery-image-credit\">Tada Images\/Shutterstock<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft and Apple have long felt like the Montagues and the Capulets, but lately, it feels like that feud is gradually mellowing into a cordial, mutual understanding \u2014 without needing two young lovers to die to make it happen. We&#8217;ve seen earnest overtures in recent years rather than shots across the bow, bringing the platforms closer together without impacting their sovereignty; Microsoft has offered olive branches such as Phone Link for iPhone, while Apple makes begrudging concessions like the upgraded Apple Music app and the\u00a0iCloud Passwords Windows\u00a0app. It&#8217;s progress, but it&#8217;s still not enough \u2014 notably if you&#8217;re an iPhone user with a primary Windows computer.<\/p>\n<p>Full disclosure, I\u00a0switched from Windows to Mac, but I still have to keep a Windows PC around in the form of a gaming handheld. It serves as a backup PC, and occasionally I do use it to check emails, watch YouTube videos, and the works. As such, I&#8217;ve had to figure out how to get my iPhone cooperating with Windows so I&#8217;m prepared in case my Mac, I dunno, bursts into flames (you never know). Having an iPhone and a Mac will always be the superior combination, but if that&#8217;s not possible, here&#8217;s how to make your iPhone and Windows more like Romeo and Juliet \u2014 assuming they had a happier ending.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"\">I use Phone Link (for calls, texts, and notifications)<\/h2>\n<p>With&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slashgear.com\/2116098\/how-use-iphone-with-windows-pc-apps-need-what-change\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using An iPhone &#038; Windows PC? Here&#8217;s How I Make It Work (And What I&#8217;d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":221526,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.slashgear.com\/img\/gallery\/using-an-iphone-windows-pc-heres-how-i-make-it-work-and-what-id-change\/l-intro-1772681568.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iphone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221525"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221527,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221525\/revisions\/221527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}