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It forwards notifications to your Mac too, even when a mirroring session isn't active.
by jwells89 2y ago
It forwards notifications to your Mac too, even when a mirroring session isn't active.
- isodev 2y agoBut that was already part of continuity or was it previously limited to user activities? It’s hilarious that Apple made such a big deal out of it and then failed to release it for everyone.
- jwells89 2y agoNSUserActivity didn't forward notifications, it just provided a way to move whatever you were doing on your other Apple devices to the one you're currently using and only covered things that the dev specifically implemented. This works for all notifications from all apps.
- isodev 2y agoOh interesting! Does it mean that the content of these forwarded notifications goest through Apple servers then? With no way for the source app to prevent it?
- jwells89 2y agoI haven't picked it apart, but if it's like the other Continuity features it all takes place locally over bluetooth and ad-hoc wifi. There's a possibility that their servers are just sending the notifications to the user's Macs in the same push that sends them to the phone though.
- pohuing 2y agoSo what phone link has been doing for years. But I suppose with the integration Apple can do you can just open the notification on your mac? Phone link very unhelpfully bings the notifying app name...
- mintplant 2y agoOn supported devices (Samsung and OnePlus, off the top of my head), Phone Link can mirror apps to your PC and will open them up in this mode when you click a notification. There are some rough edges, like needing to manually unlock your phone—unless you do what I did and rig up a complicated Tasker flow to automate the process. This update makes jumping over to the Apple ecosystem surprisingly tempting, since Continuity with mirroring sounds like a more polished version of Phone Link. I can't imagine giving up my ThinkPad, though.