How to set up Intel Unison on Windows 11, iPhone, and Android - XDA Developers

With the announcement of Intel's caller 13th-generation mobile processors, you mightiness person heard of an app called Intel Unison. This caller app, similar Dell Mobile Connect (which is being discontinued) and Microsoft's Phone Link, brings your iPhone oregon Android telephone person unneurotic to your PC. With it, you tin spot your phone's photos, transportation files, reply telephone calls, and adjacent nonstop messages connected your laptop oregon PC. Unlike Microsoft's Phone Link, Intel Unison besides works large with iPhones, too, unlocking existent cross-device productivity connected 1 laptop screen.

Officially, the app volition beryllium disposable pre-installed connected prime laptops with caller 13th-generation Intel Evo CPUs. However, it besides tin beryllium installed connected laptops with 12th-generation Intel chips, too. And, you tin technically sideload the app to immoderate Windows 11 PC with Intel CPU, though it's not guaranteed it'll work.

If you're conscionable getting started oregon are funny astir Intel Unison, we person you covered and are present with a step-by-step usher connected however to instal and usage Unison connected your laptop.

What you'll need

• A laptop with a 12th-generation oregon 13th-generation Intel Evo CPU: To officially usage Intel Unison, you'll person to person a laptop with a 13th-generation oregon 12th-generation Intel Evo CPU. These caller laptops with 13th-generation Intel CPUs aren't retired astatine the clip of writing. However, based connected our tests, the Intel Unison app works conscionable good connected Windows 11 PCs with 11th-generation oregon 10th-generation CPUs, astatine slightest for now. We got the app moving connected our Surface Laptop Studio, which has 11th-generation Intel CPUs.
• A laptop moving Windows 11: According to Intel and the Microsoft Store listing, Intel Unison lone works connected Windows 11. The app won't enactment decently connected Windows 10. If you request a caller laptop to effort Intel Unison, we database the best laptops you tin buy.
• An progressive net connection: Though Intel doesn't authorities truthful connected its enactment pages, Intel Unison works by connecting your telephone done section Wi-Fi, LTE, arsenic good arsenic Bluetooth, and peer-to-peer connections.
• An iPhone oregon Android device: Naturally, you'll request an iPhone moving iOS 15 oregon higher, oregon an Android telephone moving Android 9 oregon higher for this to work. There's a companion app that you'll beryllium required to download.

Step 1 (Older hardware only): Download the Intel Unison app from the Microsoft Store

To get started, you'll person to download the Intel Unison app from the Microsoft Store. This measurement lone applies to laptops with 12th-generation oregon older Intel CPUs that don't person the Intel Unison app pre-installed.

1. Download astatine this link.
2. Click Get successful Store app.
3. Click Open and past Install erstwhile the Microsoft Store app is connected the screen.

(Optional) Sideload the Intel Unison app

Having issues downloading the Intel Unison app straight from the Microsoft Store? You tin sideload the app utilizing an online website. This website volition propulsion the required files to instal Unison connected your Windows PC.

1. Copy the Microsoft Store URL for Intel Unison.
2. Open the online nexus generator for the Microsoft Store website.
3. Paste the Microsoft Store URL wherever it says URL (link)
4. On the dropdown box, prime Retail.
5. Click the checkmark and hold for the files to load.
6. Click to download the 2nd listed file. The sanction of the listing should extremity 8j3eq9eme6ctt.msixbundle.
7. If you get a informing that the record can't beryllium downloaded securely, disregard it. Click the 3 dots adjacent to the download, take Keep, and past Keep anyway.
8. When downloaded, double-click and motorboat the file.

Following these steps, Intel Unison should present beryllium sideloaded to your Windows 11 PC.

Step 2: Install the companion app connected your iPhone oregon Android

Now that Intel Unison is installed, you tin motorboat the app. It should person been added to your Start Menu automatically. If not, you find it utilizing the Windows 11 hunt box. Before proceeding, delight guarantee Bluetooth is enabled connected some your mobile instrumentality and PC and that some devices are connected to the internet, preferably the aforesaid Wi-Fi network. This is required for the app to enactment astatine its best.

1. Hit the Accept & continue fastener successful the Intel Unison app connected your PC.
2. Choose if you privation to stock clang information oregon analytics.
3. Scan the on-screen QR code utilizing your iPhone oregon Android instrumentality that you privation to brace with your PC.
4. This volition instrumentality you to the Apple App Store oregon Google Play Store to download the companion app connected your iPhone oregon Android device.
5. Install the Intel Unison companion mobile app done your mobile app store.
6. On your iPhone oregon Android device, take the Accept & proceed option.
7. Choose again if you privation to stock clang information and statistics.
8. Accept the permissions by clicking Let's go.
9. Agree to each of the support prompts for contacts, photos, calls, SMS, and more.

Once finished, support the Intel Unison app unfastened connected your PC, and don't exit the app. You'll request it unfastened for the adjacent steps.

Step 3: Pair your iPhone oregon Android to your PC

After you instal the Intel Unison app connected your phone, you'll privation to spell done the Bluetooth and pairing process connected Windows to implicit things and get started with utilizing the app.

1. On the Intel Unison app connected your iPhone oregon Android device, pat connected Scan QR code.
2. If required, assistance support to the camera connected your mobile device.
3. Using the Intel Unison mobile app, scan the QR code you spot connected your PC.
4. Make definite that the displayed pairing codification matches what you spot connected some your Windows PC and your Android oregon iPhone device.
5. Click Confirm connected the Intel Unison app connected your PC.
6. Allow your PC to link to your telephone automatically via Bluetooth.
7. Approve immoderate Bluetooth pairing requests connected some your mobile instrumentality and PC and marque definite the PIN numbers match.
8. Allow entree to notifications.

Once you implicit pairing, you should spot a completion oregon "success!" connection connected the Intel Unison app connected your Android oregon iPhone. You tin present play astir with the app connected your Windows PC!

Step 4 (iPhone only): Grant further permissions

If you're utilizing Intel Unison with an iPhone, you'll person to assistance the app immoderate other permissions to nonstop and person iMessages connected your PC. Unison volition automatically punctual you for this if you effort to nonstop a connection for the archetypal clip aft pairing your iPhone to your PC.

1. Open Settings on your iPhone.
2. Tap Bluetooth.
3. Choose the sanction of your paired PC.
4. Tap the (i) adjacent to it.
5. Tap Show Notifications and marque definite the toggle power is on.

Enjoy the app!

That's it! You've officially paired your iPhone oregon Android instrumentality to your Windows PC done Intel Unison. You tin present research the app and bask its galore large features.

You tin transcript photos from your Phone to your PC by going to the assemblage and clicking the download icon astatine the apical close of a photo. And you tin nonstop caller iMessages from Unison by clicking Messages. Remember, you won't spot your full speech past successful Intel Unison, arsenic lone Android phones volition fto you bash this. You adjacent tin spot your phone's notifications and spot calls, too. Intel Unison is simply a genuinely almighty app and a large mode to unite your iPhone oregon Android instrumentality with your PC.