Windows 11 prompts you to connect your smartphone during its initial setup process. Here, however, we show you how to connect an Android phone and a Windows 11 PC for a richer mobile-and-desktop integrated setup. That said, you can connect an iPhone to a Windows PC for some basic file-transfer functions. Microsoft has stated it wants to bring the same functionality for iPhones to Windows, but Apple has long been uninterested in releasing users from lock-in with its products. If you have an iPhone, you can also connect it to a computer running Windows 11, but you won’t get the same depth of experience Android users do. Windows users can finally claim at least parity with mobile-to-desktop functionality described here, which Microsoft updated in March.
Apple Silicon-based Macs go even further, with mobile-app-running capability. Most impressive of all, with some Android phone models you can simultaneously use multiple mobile apps right on your computer.įor years, Apple has topped Windows in terms of mobile-desktop integrations with macOS’s ability to let users text and make calls from their desktop. All you have to do is connect your Android device to Windows 11. Windows 11 lets you see that photo and reply to that message right from your keyboard. You get a text message, but you don’t want to dig out your phone to reply to it while you’re working on your PC. You take a picture on your phone, and now you want to see it on a bigger screen. The new icon will soon be available for the PC.Connecting the two lets you send text messages, see notifications, instantly grab photos, and even run apps from your Android on your Windows 11 PC. If you want to check out the mobile data sync, you can grab the latest version of the Your Phone Companion app from the Google Play Store now.Īlong with this update, Microsoft also updated the icon of the Your Phone Companion app for Android to make it inline with the Office icons.
To have this feature, you need to have the mobile app version 3.4.8 or higher and then enable this capability by navigating to Settings | Sync over mobile data. No need to have your phone connected to WiFi anymore. Roberto Bojorquez, the Lead Program Manager at Microsoft, on his twitter handle announced the roll out of a new capability to the Your Phone Companion app for Android, which will now allow you to sync over mobile data for messaging, photos and notifications. Though this capability is disabled by default to save your data charges, but when you need it, you can navigate to app settings to make it enabled. Prior to that, you need to have your phone connected to WiFi for your content to show up on your PC. Microsoft rolled out a new update to its Your Phone Companion app for Android, that's now allows you to sync over mobile data.
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