How To Use Dell Mobile Connect

Dell Mobile Connect app adds this killer new feature for iPhone users

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Dell laptop owners with an iPhone who take been envious of the synergy enjoyed by Apple tree users with mobile devices are finally getting many of the same features thanks to a recent update to Dell Mobile Connect for iOS (via The Verge).

The latest update adds the ability to transfer photos and videos likewise equally mirror and control your iPhone from a Dell laptop. It also removes the need to proceed the Dell Mobile Connect iPhone app open up in the foreground when sending SMS messages from your laptop.

This is across what Microsoft'southward Your Phone app supports for iOS users at the moment, so if you own a Dell laptop, Mobile Connect just became the all-time iPhone companion app. Here's a quick rundown of how to set information technology up and everything it can do.

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How to set Dell Mobile Connect

To utilize all the features of Dell Mobile Connect, you need an iPhone running iOS xiii or later and a Dell computer from 2018 or newer running Windows x.

On your iPhone, download the Dell Mobile Connect companion app from the App Store.
So, on your Dell computer, download Dell Mobile Connect from the Microsoft Shop.
Follow the onscreen instructions on the desktop and mobile apps to complete the setup.

What your iPhone can practice with Dell Mobile Connect

Dell Mobile Connect will allow you lot to make and receive telephone calls over your Dell laptop and then you don't have to get your phone out. SMS and MMS messages can be sent and received straight from your laptop as well.

If you would like, y'all can too come across your iPhone notifications on your Dell laptop.

File transfers between your iPhone and Dell laptops accept been office of Dell Mobile Connect since the beginning, simply support for photos and videos was added equally part of the latest update so you can only elevate and drib whatsoever file betwixt your devices.

And probably the biggest new add-on is screen mirroring, which volition let you view and control your iPhone entirely from your Dell laptop. This should eliminate whatsoever need to go your iPhone out while sitting at your laptop.

Naturally, this still lacks some of the Continuity and Handoff functionality bachelor between iPhones and macOS laptops, merely it'south getting much closer and is a better choice compared with other Windows 10 alternatives.

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