The Your Phone app, which specifically allows you to connect your Android smartphone to your Windows PC, has undergone a facelift and has become Microsoft’s Phone Link. On the software, a completely new interface and simpler and faster device control on Windows 11.
Over three years ago, Microsoft launched the Your Phone app, a native tool for Windows 10 that, among other things, connects your Android smartphone to your Windows PC. Thanks to this feature, users are able to refer to their text messages, photos and images, or even access notifications from their favorite apps directly on their computer screen, without having to take their phone out of their pocket.
Year after year, the Your Phone app has received many improvements; Like being able to extract text from an image saved in your smartphone, reply to messages from the Windows notification center or sync multiple Android smartphones. The latest new feature, the ability to remotely configure your smartphone such as whether or not to activate Bluetooth or volume control.
Windows 11: Your Phone app turns into Phone Link
However, yesterday, April 1, 2022, Microsoft formalized the end of the career for the Your Phone app. Don’t worry, the app is in the process of changing. It is now called Microsoft Mobile Connected or Phone Link in the US; The American company decided for this occasion to completely review the interface of its gadget.
From the left column, users can, for example, easily access the notifications sent to their smartphones. The new tabbed browsing also allows you to quickly enjoy all the important features, files and content of the phone. Finally, Microsoft announced that a device running Windows 11 will be much faster, by simply scanning a QR code during the initial configuration of the new PC.
As Redmond explained, it saw the launch of Windows as an opportunity to “refresh the design of the app” and “refresh the controls, our color palette, and the overall appearance of the app to provide an authentic experience on the new Windows 11 system”. It is true that we find the distinguishing elements of the design of the Microsoft operating system; With these rounded corners in particular. This new version is now available on the Microsoft Store, via a new update. On Android, you’ll need to install the Link with Windows app to take advantage of it. Of course, the company will continue to update the app with new features from time to time.