Chapter 2
Using Your iPhone with Windows
IN THIS CHAPTER
Making your iPhone cooperate with Windows 11
Setting up iTunes
Installing iCloud
Controlling Windows 11 from your iPhone or iPad
Many people own an iPhone or an iPad or both, and love using them regularly. However, they may also have not a Mac but a Windows laptop or PC. If that’s the case for you, too, you might be interested in making your Apple and Windows devices work together, and sync pictures and music between your iPhone or iPad and Windows 11.
Unfortunately, the integration offered by Microsoft and Apple is not nearly as good as that with Microsoft and Android. There’s no compatibility between the Your Phone app from Windows 11 and the iPhone. Also, if you plug into your Windows PC an iPhone or iPad, you can’t simply access its files from File Explorer, as you do with Android devices. You need iTunes or iCloud or both.
In this chapter, I share the basics about installing and using both iTunes and iCloud, so that you can get access from Windows to the files on your iPhone and iPad. I also give you some tips on how ...
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