phone link

Yep it works reasonably well with JAWS. Not perfect but definitely usable. It was kind of amusing to get my phone notifications on my Windows laptop, it prompted me to realise how utterly rediculous the amount of notifications had become. For some reason I just accept my phone dinging and bonging every few minutes, maybe like the frog boiled slowly but when they all started coming in on my laptop I realised something had to be done about getting rid of a lot of them.

I have an Acer laptop that runs Windows 11. If I can get it into the recovery mode and reset it, and use my own Microsoft account, I can use phone link perfectly! Now, time to go back to figuring out why my computer won’t get into recovery mode in the first place.
But I use NVDA.

Hello!
I have already tried phone link, but I preferred using it on Android because it didn't require turning on Bluetooth to receive notifications, saving battery and time. My experiences with Android were not the best, which is why I don't use it in this case. It is much more intuitive to check notifications now.
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It is perfect on my side. It is 100% accessible.

I have an iPhone, and so far I've enjoyed calling people on my computer. However, I've also discovered that VoiceOver also was transfered to my PC. One thing I'm still trying to discover is, is it using my laptop's microphone or that on my phone? But loving this feature so far.

I was testing different use cases with my friend. I was able to first start a FaceTime audio call and transfer the call to my PC. Then it started using my laptop microphone as the main audio input source. I believe you can't make the PC start a FaceTime call, though, but I could be mistaken.

Sorry to bump an old post, but I'm trying to get this working and having quite the time. Notifications all work, and messages kinda work. I can send one, but if I shift tab to read conversation history, the whole thing freezes up. And haven't been able to test calls yet. Anyone know if there are any shortcut keys to answer, hang up, etc?
On Android the phone link works really well, but on iPhone, still to be determined.

I will have to double check next time someone calls me, but maybe something like 'Enter' for answering calls, and Escape for declining them?

Otherwise I have yet to actually learn any hotkeys for this. 🤷

Justin, I am having the same problem reading messages. Did you find a solution?

As far as answering calls goes, if you're using Jaws 2024, you can answer a call from wherever you happen to be. Press Alt Windows c and it gives you an option to answer calls on Phone Link, Teams, and Skype. you can choose which one appears first on the list. When you want to end a call, there is an end call button in the app.

Ah, this is good to know. Actually, no, no luck with the crashing yet. And, come to find out, the entire message history is not synced, so only received messages plus messages actually sent via phone link show up, which is rather annoying. I actually just got rid of it.

It is not connected in any way to iCloud, so yeah, no real history save for what the app creates as you remain connected to it via Bluetooth. ☹

Just wondering if there might be any alternative software out there that would work. With rcs coming in iOS 18, it would be absolutely amazing if we could use Google messages on the web. When on Android, I used it a ton, and I actually liked it more than iMessage on the mac. Would be nice if Apple would give us iMessage for web. Don't see it happening though. But if the rcs means we could use Google's version, that would be really awesome.

Apple's iMessage for PC? 😇

The best alternative I've found is Intel Unison. It's far from perfect. I've found I have to use JAWS's invisable cursor to read text messages, and I can't make calls with it because I'm using a bluetooth headset. It does allow me to read notifications and share files between my computer and my phone.

In regard to one of your previous questions, it only shows messages that were received while the phone was connected to the computer, and I don't think it archives them.

No, it doesn't archive them. Seems half baked to me. Do it right or don't do it.