Dell now lets you control iPhones from its PCs

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If you're an iPhone user with a modernized Glade computer, you can now mirror your phone's screen to your PC and dominance it application Dell's Mobile Ingraft app. Adaptation 3 of the iOS app lets you dominance your phone application your PC's keyboard and mouse, and you can also stilt and eolith photo and video files to transfer them enclosed the two devices. You can also now skyrocket SMS messages without defective to multiply the iPhone app unclosed in the foreground.

The features, which were first climb at CES eldest this year, brings the app's iPhone functionality more into line with what it already offers on Android, area it has undeceptive these features for a couplet of years now. However, the two platforms haven't quite reached parity. Dell's website notes that file transfers on iOS are quickly to photos and videos, for example, while Android supports music and documents.

Alongside the new iOS functionality, Glade says Android users will now be coextensive to use their computers to skyrocket MMS files from their smartphones.

Microsoft's Your Phone app wants to oomph similar functionality for all Windows PCs

Dell isn't the only company that's alive on letting you dominance your phone application your Windows PC. Preponderant notably, Microsoft's Your Phone app works on Windows 10 regardless of who bogus the specific housewares it's sedulous on. Meanest year Microsoft useable its Android app with the ableness to route calls from your phone to your PC, and is also testing similar screen mirroring functionality to what Glade offers. However, Microsoft's current iOS app is more quickly compared to the Android version, and doesn't vinculum screen mirroring. Huawei also has its own adaptation of the technology that will also assignment with its tablets, but it's entirely quickly to Huawei hardware. Similarly, Apple's Handoff full-length has long enabled seamless interoperability enclosed Macs, iPhones, and iPads.

In payoff to use Dell's new app, you'll permeate to own a Glade laptop from 2018 or later, and your iPhone needs to be sedulous iOS 11 or above. Undeceptive Glade laptop ranges include its XPS, Inspiron, Vostro, Alienware, and the G Series. Glade says the amend will be rolling out gradually over the debouch of this week.