I'm about to buy the iPhone Xr or the iPhone 11 soon.
However, I need a new, well-functioning laptop for the school, but will (for price reasons) determined not to access a Macbook.
My question is: Is it a bad idea to have an iPhone paired with a laptop that is not Apple?
So if I want to transfer images for example or similar? Have since often complaints to this topic from my girlfriend heard (has an iPhone 6) …
I think so. I think that would bring big problems. If you use Apple, then you need more than an iPhone, because it is a perfect ecosystem that does not plan to work with devices from any Chinese company. Try to save your money, buy a MacBook and you will see that it was better to buy it as well.
This is not a problem.
Of course, if you have both an iPhone and a MacBook, they will work together perfectly (you can accept calls to the MacBook, scan documents with your phone and they're right on your laptop, etc.), as well as a Windows laptop and an iPhone work together.
If you're setting up iCloud on the Windows PC, you can at least sync your photos via the cloud (if you want that and privacy is not a problem for you), use iCloud Drive on the PC, and bookmarks in Safari on the iPhone and in Chrome, Firefox, etc. Match on PC.
For backups, however, you would still need iTunes, which was set for the Mac, but for Windows will remain for the foreseeable future.
So it would work, because when connecting the iPhone to e.g. A Windows PC via USB Lightning connection, the iPhone is automatically mounted as a drive. So similar to a removable disk or USB stick. Transferring photos, etc. Is not a problem. For seamless compatibility but Apple hardware and software is necessary, which is coordinated as described here. Depends on whether you have advanced Apple features or apps like Numbers, Pages, etc. Want to use on both devices or not.
