How To Use Your Windows Phone With A Mac

Here's a few handy tips on getting your Apple MacBook or iMac to play nice with your Windows Phone handset

A friend of mine recently bought his first Mac after being a Windows user for his entire life. And while switching from PC to Mac can present some of its own unique challenges, the thing my friend really had trouble getting his head around was using his existing Windows Phone with his new Mac.

Put curtly: Apple wants you to use an iPhone if you use a Mac, or, at the very least, an iPad. But in reality this is not the case, as a lot of people quite like Macs but out-right despise iPhones and iOS in general. For these types of users (and there is a fair few of them out there), OS X can often feel a little unfriendly towards non-iOS-powered mobile devices. Can you get OS X and non-Apple mobile devices to play nice?

Sort of. But you do not get the level of features as iPhone and iPad users; that’s just the way Apple likes to do things, for better or worse. There are methods of getting stuff to link, however, so in this little feature we’re going to take a look at how you can sync your Windows Phone with your Mac and what you can and can’t do with the various data and services on each.

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