Electronics

[Zhills]

My daughter needs an Apple I Phone for her work and she uses a Windows desktop and laptop at home. 

Will the 2 be compatible?  If not, what does she need to do?

[glb613]

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@Zhills wrote:

My daughter needs an Apple I Phone for her work and she uses a Windows desktop and laptop at home. 

Will the 2 be compatible?  If not, what does she need to do?

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If you mean can you back up your iPhone using a Windows computer, the answer is yes. 

[ChynnaBlue]

Yes, I only use iPhones and Windows computers.

What she needs to do depends on what she wants to do with the phone. She may want to download iTunes to her computer to back up the phone and install new updates OR she can do that through the cloud. I prefer to use iTunes for big updates because I have a the 128GB phone and lots of data. Sometimes updating wirelessly fails and you have to use iTunes to fix it.

If she has music she wants to move to her phone, she may have to convert files to a differnt format. If she doesn't have any music she wants on her phone, then she doesn't need to do that at all.  She can do a Google search on that if it comes up. 

I really run into no compatibility issues working with a Windows computer and an iPhone. My iPhone easily manages my Microsoft Outlook email from my work account AND my gmail from my personal account.

[Mz iMac]

Transfer photos and videos from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to your Mac or PC.

Apple Knowledge Base: iPhone & Windows

HTH

[jaxs mom]

Now days, you don't need to connect your iphone to your computer at all. You can do everything from the phone including downloading apps, syncing music with your itunes account and backing up. Everything is in the cloud now days. 

[LTT1]

@Zhills

I am curious as to why she needs for both to be compatible with each other?

Documents are a different category than apple devices can handle, in my opinion.

Nevertheless, yes, they all play well together using USB ports and cloud storage.

[glb613]

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@jaxs mom wrote:

Now days, you don't need to connect your iphone to your computer at all. You can do everything from the phone including downloading apps, syncing music with your itunes account and backing up. Everything is in the cloud now days. 

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That's only true if you have less than 5 GB of data or are willing to PAY for additional storage.  You make it sound so easy and cheap and it isn't. 

[jaxs mom]

apps and music you purchased from itunes aren't costing you storage space. Neither are physically stored in your personal icloud account in the cloud, just the information that you own it is. You can download them from apples servers where they are hosted. I've got over 80GB of video and over 60 GB of music in my itunes library and they are all instantly accessable to download to my phone. And no my icloud account isn't physically storing them all. I don't even have 5 gigs in my icloud storage. 

You don't have to use the cloud to store photos if you don't want to. You can transfer them over wifi, using the messages app or email or directly upload them to a photo storage website. 

BTW, it's 99 cents a month for 50 GB of icloud storage if you need it. Hardly expensive. 

[Zhills]

She has an Android and a Windows PC and laptop.

Her new job uses apps on the Apple I Phone only.  She gets a discount for Apple.

I just was not sure they were compatable.  I don't use my PC for business anymore and am not up on the latest.  Thanks for your info.

[jaxs mom]

My husband also uses windows at work and has a iphones business phone. It's a non issue. As is storage or back ups. It being a business phone he doesn't pay for any of that.