For the moment, my trusty Samsung Galaxy S9+ runs the top-right set of functions above just perfectly, so I'm basing my thoughts here on that.įirst of all, a walkthrough refresher, with the new app functionality in place: I'll come back to this with a review Galaxy S21 series device in a month's time, hopefully. See here for compatibility and requirements.

However, this is currently reportedly rather buggy and unstable, plus I don't currently have any hardware new enough to try it. Note that there's also a super-tier of Samsung flagships with extra 'Your Phone' functionality, in that the very latest flagships can work with the latest Windows builds to offer multiple concurrent Android applications running in the UI on your desktop. It could be argued that an iPhone user might have a Mac for a desktop/laptop, mind you, so in practice an iPhone owner wouldn't expect to have much interoperability with Windows 10.

Keep track of URLs in Edge on iOS (if installed)Īs you can see, the iPhone and iOS are excluded from the meat and potatoes of Your Phone because there's not enough under the hood access allowed by iOS.

Continue working on phone-sourced web URLs in Edge on Windows.

Thereafter, you share to this app from the standard Share sheet 'Continue on PC' is in the iOS App Store and needs to be sought and installed. 'Your Phone Companion - Link to Windows' is in the Play Store and needs to be sought and installed

Instant access to your most recent photosĪndroid 7 or above on any other Android phone.

Read and reply to your text messages from your PC and use your keyboard.

Receive and manage your phone’s notifications.

(essentially anything decent released by Samsung in the last 3 years)

As a reminder, although it was first mooted by Microsoft in 2018, we covered the launch of Your Phone to the mainstream at the Samsung Note 10 event in August 2019, highlighting the work done in Samsung's Android flagship to work with Windows, with an accompanying review of progress so far (calls, contacts, messages, photos, notifications) and separate announcement of Android app integration, with availability a month later, in September 2020.Įssentially, 'Your Phone' is Windows software ( in the Store, as I say, but pushed heavily as part of Windows setup) that talks to counterpart software in your phone to deliver (depending on phone): Phone/OS

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