


'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) Voila, now all your notification will also be displayed on your PC.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 Next click allow when you see “Your Phone Companion” in the “Read App Notification” list. It’ll show you tutorial to connect the phone, you can follow that, which is giving access in the menu option in settings or simply click on open settings on your phone, which automatically open the desired menu in your phone. To get a real-time notification on the PC, click on the bell icon and choose to get started.

This will show you a constant notification, “Connected to PC” and a disconnect option, whenever you don’t want both of the devices to sync. You will get prompt asking permission to connect it to the PC, just click allow. As soon as you log in from both your phone and PC, it seamlessly connects both the devices. Both devices need to be connected to the internet. So if you wish to change it, you can do that in the start menu, under Account Settings, else you can straightaway start using it. The app will automatically detect the account you’re logged in through in your PC. It asks whether your phone is Android or iPhone, let’s choose Android for our convenience. After Your Phone installs, launch the app.
