Comments on: Want iMessage on Your Windows PC? How-To

By: chris

chris — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 21:04:14 +0000

In reply to John. that's because it is.

By: Joe Cassara

Joe Cassara — Sat, 31 Jul 2021 01:49:53 +0000

Take a look at Dell Mobile Connect. (No, you don’t need a Dell to use it. Google is your friend.)

By: Thomas Loos

Thomas Loos — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 12:57:21 +0000

Thanks to the author Andrew Martin, this information helped me. Like the Android to Mac file transfer article

By: John

John — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 08:10:41 +0000

Really? Is this a solution? I have both ios and Android device and day after day it seems Android is more intuitive and easier to use then iOS

By: Junkman

Junkman — Tue, 07 Jan 2020 17:14:20 +0000

While this article is technically correct and easy to follow, all this article is showing you is how to remotely control a Mac or an IOS device so you can, in essence, use that device to do iMessaging for you.

You can’t do iMessages on a Windows machine unless you already have a Mac or a jailbroken IOS device. Those devices need to be turned on all the time as well.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 21 Jun 2019 18:35:18 +0000

Yeah, I agree you need a MAC to use iMessage on your PC with this solution. Essentially all you are doing is sharing a connection with a MAC. Not only do you need a MAC, but it also needs to be ON if you are to use iMessage.

While I can see the limited need for this solution, it is difficult for most of the people searching for a way to use iMessage on a PC easily.

By: ThatGuy

ThatGuy — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 13:38:35 +0000

Jailbreaking does NOT void your warranty. This is patently false. It only invalidates your warranty if it’s the cause of your issue. In otherwords, if you break your screen, they will fix it if under warranty because that’s not caused by jailbreaking.

By: Jond

Jond — Tue, 06 Nov 2018 19:34:06 +0000

In reply to PT.

With the way that the encryption works even if they had the data it would take someone over a lifetime to brute force the key to decipher it with today’s computing power.

They just want to keep people in their walled garden. (I own an iPhone xs and love it but hate Apple’s closed-door policies)

By: Dawson

Dawson — Thu, 01 Nov 2018 15:12:48 +0000

Helloooooo

By: PT

PT — Sun, 05 Aug 2018 18:49:27 +0000

I propose that (at least partly) Apple does not want to trust the world with its end-to-end imessage encryption.

By: John

John — Fri, 20 Jul 2018 19:42:47 +0000

A good idea: you should indicate at the VERY BEGINNING of the article that “you will need a Mac as well as a PC unless you want to jailbreak your phone. If you do not have a Mac, you are out of luck unless you want to jailbreak your phone.”

This would help a number of people who read through this entire article (including the section on how to use iMessenger on a Mac… seems an odd bit to include) and then realized “hey that was pointless. I don’t own a Mac!” I imagine this is the vast majority of people reading this article.

By: Gupta

Gupta — Fri, 25 May 2018 14:42:50 +0000

FYI, you need ios 9 or earlier for remote message from jailbreak. The developer is not developing anymore.

By: Anne Feldmann

Anne Feldmann — Tue, 08 May 2018 16:15:57 +0000

If you have any pipeline into Apple, please let them know how much I utterly and completely detest them. This asinine fixation with keeping iMessage only usable for people who own Macs is … asinine. I’ve had my iPhone for about 2 years now and I can’t wait until the service contract is up and I can upgrade to an Android phone, which will allow me to sync and receive my text messages on my PC. So long Apple – and keep in mind that business entities (whether they be companies or countries) who insist on insularity, eventually always lose.

By: Zayn

Zayn — Tue, 13 Mar 2018 17:00:16 +0000

I mean the only solution that comes CLOSE is a remote desktop, but that requires a Mac – so basically, there is no way to view iMessages purely off of a Windows computer itself.

By: jo anson

jo anson — Mon, 04 Dec 2017 16:04:34 +0000

can anyone tell me how i can send imessages from my windows laptop without having my iphone with me at the time? and also does the iphone aswell as the laptop have to be connected to internent?

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 24 May 2017 22:26:50 +0000

So miserable to follow an article and then go through what MArk did above…

By: MArk

MArk — Fri, 28 Apr 2017 12:26:12 +0000

You can probably combine these” re the 10.6 comment, apparently Chrome needed to be updated.

But here’s the weird thing, after 10-12 failed attempts with “the access code is invalid”, I closed the CRD then reopened on the client; surprise it prompted me for the PIN! Connected perfectly…

to a screensaver. Rats.

By: MArk

MArk — Fri, 28 Apr 2017 12:23:03 +0000

A few more
The passcode generate by GRD is NOT to be typed with spaces

The host will require a PIN set, this is NUMBERS only, true it says “digits” but many probaby type their fave password it’s just numbers.

But in the end, as thousands have posted, you’ll get “the access code is invalid”, which is odd as we know the machines are communicating, as the host asked to allow the client to connect, then the client threw up that error message…

By: MArk

MArk — Fri, 28 Apr 2017 11:42:05 +0000

Chrome Remote Desktop said it needed Mac OSX 10.6…. from years ago…