How To Connect Phone To Windows 10

A new feature in Windows ten Fall Creators Update called "Continue on PC." It allows you to start work on your phone and motion it to PC.

Your smartphone today has a ton of computing power, but not everything can exist washed on it. A lot of times, for complex tasks you need to complete your workflow on a PC. Microsoft understands this, and with the upcoming Fall Creators Update, it's introducing a new Phone-to-PC linking feature that lets you start work on your phone, and then transition it to your Windows 10 system.

We accept shown you how to use Continue on PC with iOS and here's a look at connecting your Android phone with Windows x. Note that for this to piece of work you'll need to be running Build 16251 or in a higher place.

Notation: Since this commodity was originally written, Microsoft has rolled out the "Your Phone" app. It continues to gain features regularly. Brand sure to read our commodity: How to Transport Text Messages from Windows 10 with the Your Phone app.

Connect an Android Phone with Windows 10

To kickoff off, you need to pair your Android phone with Windows 10. To exercise that caput to Settings > Phone and then select the "Add a telephone" button.

Side by side, y'all need to enter your mobile phone's number to receive an SMS message.

An SMS message will be sent to your Android phone with a link to Microsoft Apps in the Play Store. Tap the link to install it.

After that, take a look at your Windows 10 organization in Settings > Phone and yous should encounter that your phone is paired with Windows 10 and listed every bit a device y'all can manage.

Back on your phone, open the app and in the Windows Insiders section tap on "Endeavour It Now" and you'll go a curt tutorial and and then introduction screen – tap Get Started.

To exam out if it's working, browse to a website you want to share with Windows ten and tap the options button and then Share. That volition open up the carte du jour of sharing options on your telephone — select Go along to PC.

If this is the first time sharing an item you'll kickoff need to log into your Microsoft Account and approve the connexion via Microsoft Authenticator.

After y'all're signed in, y'all won't demand to sign in again until you employ a unlike device or log out of your account. Another stride in the process to signal out is when y'all tap the Continue on PC action, y'all'll get the choice to send at present or later. After that, your telephone will browse your network for devices capable of receiving the item. In the example below I take two different systems to choose from.

When you transport an particular over to the PC, you will receive a notification in Action Center that an item has been sent from your Android telephone to the PC. For instance, here I sent a link to one of our articles.

Summing Upward

Go along in mind that this feature is still under development and, at the time of this writing, it'southward definitely not perfect. I, like my colleague Andre with iOS, had varying degrees of success trying to send over websites. In my testing, I used a Nexus 6P running Android Nougat, a Lenovo Flex 2, and Dell Inspiron desktop (both running Windows ten Build 16257). Sometimes nothing would exist sent over, and sometimes I would receive the notification, simply it wouldn't open up in my browser.

However, when things did work as advertised, information technology showed the potential of how this will surely be handy in the time to come. Right now it seems to be express to just sending over websites, and not other items similar Office documents. Although, I was able to transport over searches from the Bing app for Android.

Ane more affair to point out is with Microsoft Apps for Android, which allows you to easily detect official Microsoft apps has a lot of potential for this Proceed on PC characteristic. Once the functionality gets integrated into more of the available Microsoft apps (and other apps for that matter), there is a ton of potential moving frontwards.