New York (CNN Business) A new Dell feature means iPhone users won't have to look away from their computer screens in the middle of work (or of a heated solitaire game) to answer a text message.

Dell DELL Mobile Connect links customers' cellphones to their PCs wirelessly — making it possible to access a phone screen, text, make calls and use apps from their computers.

The feature has been available to Android users since 2018. Dell announced Thursday the tool is now rolling out for iOS phone users.

Drag-and-drop photo and video transfers are available now for people with iPhones and XPS, Inspiron, Vostro and Alienware computers. Other types of file transfers, as well as app mirroring, are set to be available in the Spring, according to the company.

That means iPhone customers will get a long-awaited but evasive ability: send iMessages from their Windows PCs. That feature was previously available exclusively on Macs.

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