Locking the computer protects it from unauthorized use when you need to step away from the PC, and don’t want to sign out or shut down causing everything open to be closed.
Windows can use devices that are paired with your PC to help detect when you’re away, and lock your PC shortly after your paired device is out of Bluetooth range. This makes it more difficult for someone to gain access to your device if you step away from your PC and forget to lock it.
Dynamic lock requires using Bluetooth to pair your phone with your Windows 11 PC.
Once they’re paired, take your phone with you when you walk away, and your PC will automatically lock a minute or so after you’re out of Bluetooth range.
This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off Dynamic Lock for your account in Windows 11 to automatically lock the computer when you step away from it.
The Your Phone app on your Windows PC let’s you get instant access to everything you love on your phone, right from your PC. Link your Android phone and PC to view and reply to text messages, make and receive calls, and more – all right on your PC.
The Your Phone experience starts on your PC with Windows 10 or Windows 11 and the Your Phone app. From your PC you can connect to select Android and Samsung devices with these two apps:
You’ll see these names combined as Your Phone Companion – Link to Windows in the Google Play Store and in the Galaxy Store. In the Microsoft Store, you’ll see Your Phone. This link between your device and PC gives you instant access to everything you love. Read and reply to text messages with ease, view recent photos from your Android device, use your favorite mobile apps, make and receive calls, and manage your Android device’s notifications right on your PC.
This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable the ability to link an Android phone with the Your Phone app for all users in Windows 11.
The Your Phone app on your Windows PC let’s you get instant access to everything you love on your phone, right from your PC. Link your Android phone and PC to view and reply to text messages, make and receive calls, and more – all right on your PC.
The Your Phone experience starts on your PC with Windows 10 or Windows 11 and the Your Phone app. From your PC you can connect to select Android and Samsung devices with these two apps:
You’ll see these names combined as Your Phone Companion – Link to Windows in the Google Play Store and in the Galaxy Store. In the Microsoft Store, you’ll see Your Phone. This link between your device and PC gives you instant access to everything you love. Read and reply to text messages with ease, view recent photos from your Android device, use your favorite mobile apps, make and receive calls, and manage your Android device’s notifications right on your PC.
This tutorial will show you how to link a Samsung Android phone to your Windows 11 PC with your Microsoft account.
The Your Phone app in Windows 10 allows you to get instant access to everything you love on your phone, right from your PC.
You can link multiple Android and iPhone devices to connect with the Your Phone app, and you can switch between these linked devices in the Your Phone app settings page.
This tutorial will show you how to choose your primary Android or iPhone device to connect by default with the Your Phone app in Windows 10.
You can tap into the power of Your Phone app with Link to Windows integration on select Surface Duo and Samsung devices to instantly access your Android phone’s mobile apps directly from your Windows 10 PC.
With Your Phone apps, you can instantly access the Android apps installed on your mobile device right on your PC. Using a Wi-Fi connection, Apps allows you to browse, play, order, chat, and more – all while using your PC’s larger screen and keyboard. You can add your Android apps as favorites on your PC, pin them to your Start menu and taskbar, and open them in separate windows to use side-by-side with apps on your PC – helping you stay productive.
This tutorial will show you how to add or remove Android phone apps as favorites in the Your Phone app on a Windows 10 PC.
You can tap into the power of Your Phone app with Link to Windows integration on select Surface Duo and Samsung devices to instantly access your Android phone’s mobile apps directly from your Windows 10 PC.
With Your Phone apps, you can instantly access the Android apps installed on your mobile device right on your PC. Using a Wi-Fi connection, Apps allows you to browse, play, order, chat, and more – all while using your PC’s larger screen and keyboard. You can add your Android apps as favorites on your PC, pin them to your Start menu and taskbar, and open them in separate windows to use side-by-side with apps on your PC – helping you stay productive.
This tutorial will show you how to pin Android phone apps to the taskbar on your Windows 10 PC using the Your Phone app.
You can tap into the power of Your Phone app with Link to Windows integration on select Surface Duo and Samsung devices to instantly access your Android phone’s mobile apps directly from your Windows 10 PC.
With Your Phone apps, you can instantly access the Android apps installed on your mobile device right on your PC. Using a Wi-Fi connection, Apps allows you to browse, play, order, chat, and more – all while using your PC’s larger screen and keyboard. You can add your Android apps as favorites on your PC, pin them to your Start menu and taskbar, and open them in separate windows to use side-by-side with apps on your PC – helping you stay productive.
This tutorial will show you how to pin Android phone apps to the Start menu on your Windows 10 PC using the Your Phone app.
You can tap into the power of Your Phone app with Link to Windows integration on select Samsung devices to instantly access your Android phone’s mobile apps directly from your Windows 10 PC.
With Your Phone apps, you can instantly access the Android apps installed on your mobile device right on your PC. Using a Wi-Fi connection, Apps allows you to browse, play, order, chat, and more – all while using your PC’s larger screen and keyboard. You can add your Android apps as favorites on your PC, pin them to your Start menu and taskbar, and open them in separate windows to use side-by-side with apps on your PC – helping you stay productive.
Apps replaced the phone screen option in the left pane of the Your Phone app, but Phone screen is still available. Phone screen will mirror your Android phone screen the same way it did before, but it will be on a separate window from the Your Phone app. Apps provides an easier way to interact with all of the apps installed on your Android device by launching them directly.
You can turn on or off to automatically optimize an Android app or phone screen window sizing when opened from the Your Phone app on your Windows 10 PC.
This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off optimize Android app window sizing in Your Phone app on Windows 10 PC.
You can tap into the power of Your Phone app with Link to Windows integration on select Samsung devices to instantly access your Android phone’s mobile apps directly from your Windows 10 PC.
With Your Phone apps, you can instantly access the Android apps installed on your mobile device right on your PC. Using a Wi-Fi connection, Apps allows you to browse, play, order, chat, and more – all while using your PC’s larger screen and keyboard. You can add your Android apps as favorites on your PC, pin them to your Start menu and taskbar, and open them in separate windows to use side-by-side with apps on your PC – helping you stay productive.
Apps replaced the phone screen option in the left pane of the Your Phone app, but Phone screen is still available. Phone screen will mirror your Android phone screen the same way it did before, but it will be on a separate window from the Your Phone app. Apps provides an easier way to interact with all of the apps installed on your Android device by launching them directly.
You can turn on or off to hide your mobile Android phone’s screen while it is connected to your Windows 10 PC using the Your Phone app to open apps or phone screen on your phone.
This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off hide Android phone screen while connected to Windows 10 PC with Your Phone app.
You can tap into the power of Your Phone app with Link to Windows integration on select Samsung devices to instantly access your Android phone’s mobile apps directly from your Windows 10 PC.
Apps replaced the phone screen option in the left pane of the Your Phone app, but Phone screen is still available. Phone screen will mirror your Android phone screen the same way it did before, but it will be on a separate window from the Your Phone app. Apps provides an easier way to interact with all of the apps installed on your Android device by launching them directly.
The Phone screen feature only works when your Android device and Windows 10 PC can communicate with each other. They will both need to be turned on, linked, and connected to the same network (for example, your home Wi-Fi).
The Your Phone Companion accessibility service is for those using a screen reading or focus tracking tool on a Windows 10 PC.
When the Your Phone Companion accessibility service is enabled, it lets you control all your Android phone’s apps from your Windows 10 PC using Android keyboard navigation while receiving Narrator spoken feedback from your PC speakers or headphones. You can navigate through phone screen on your PC by using your keyboard and mouse.
This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable the Your Phone Companion accessibility service on your Android phone with Your Phone app on Windows 10 PC.
When the Action Center in Windows 10 gets a new notification, it will briefly show a notification banner above the taskbar notification area to let you know.
After you link your iPhone or Android phone to your Windows 10 PC, you can use the Your Phone app on the PC to view notifications forwarded from your Android phone or iPhone on your PC, and much more.
The Your Phone app in Windows 10 has a notifications feature that lets you control how much detail you want visible on notification banners sent from your phone to your PC. You can select to have these notification banners show with previews, show with sender only, or hide all content to be less distracted or for privacy reasons.
This tutorial will show you how to choose how to display Your Phone app notification banners on your Windows 10 PC.
Linking your Android phone to your PC lets you switch seamlessly between your phone and PC.
If you turned on to display notifications from your Android phone in the Your Phone app, you can view and manage your Android device notifications on your Windows 10 PC.
The Your Phone app has a new pinning feature integrated with the notifications feed. With notifications pinning, you can easily pin to save important notifications that will stick to the top of your feed so they are readily accessible and distinguished from the rest of your notifications.
Since the notification will now stick to the top of your feed, you no longer have to worry about losing the notification and can easily access the thread and use all your favorite functionality, like in-line reply. When you no longer need that notification thread, you can simply unpin it.
This tutorial will show you how to pin and unpin Android phone notifications to the top in the Your Phone app for your account in Windows 10.
Linking your Android phone to your PC lets you switch seamlessly between your phone and PC.
Cross-device copy and paste is supported on Android devices that are running One UI version 2.1.
Cross-device copy and paste allows the Your Phone app to to access and transfer content you copy and paste using the same shortcuts you normally use on your Android phone and Windows 10 PC. Use Cross-device Copy and Paste to easily copy text from your compatible Galaxy phone to your connected PC.
It is only possible to copy text and images between your devices currently. Images above 1MB in size will be resized. You can copy content and paste it into a Secure Folder, but you can’t copy and paste content from a Secure Folder onto your PC. Copying something from a Secure Folder will still replace any content you have on your PC clipboard.
This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off Cross-device copy and paste for the Your Phone app in Windows 10.
Starting with the Your Phone app 1.20071.95.0 version, you can tap into the power of Your Phone app with Link to Windows integration on select Samsung devices to instantly access your phone’s mobile apps directly from your Windows 10 PC. There is no need to install, sign-in or set up your apps on your PC, saving you time and hassle. You can conveniently pin your favorite mobile apps to your Taskbar or Start menu on your PC for quick and easy access. When you launch an app, it opens in a separate window outside of the Your Phone app enabling you to multitask. So, whether you need to quickly reply to a conversation, respond to your social posts, or order food, you can do it fast using your PC’s large screen, keyboard, mouse, pen and touch screen alongside your other PC apps!
This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off displaying apps from your Android phone in the Your Phone app for your account on a Windows 10 PC.
Starting with Windows 10 build 18885 on April 26, 2019, Microsoft added a feature to the Your Phone app in Windows 10 to see your Android phone’s notifications on your PC.
If you turned on to display notifications from your Android phone in the Your Phone app, you can select to have these notifications open in either the Notifications or Phone screen section by default in the Your Phone app.
This tutorial will show you how to change open notifications from your Android phone in the Notifications or Phone screen section by default in the Your Phone app in Windows 10.
Starting with Windows 10 build 18885 on April 26, 2019, Microsoft added a new feature to the Your Phone app in Windows 10 to see your Android phone’s notifications on your PC.
Stop reaching for your phone to check your notifications. Boost your focus and productivity by seeing your phone’s notifications on your PC. You are in control and manage which apps you want to receive notifications from. Dismiss a notification on one device and it goes away on the other.
This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off showing a badge on the Your Phone app taskbar icon in Windows 10 when you have new unread Android phone notifications.
Linking your iPhone or Android phone to your PC lets you switch seamlessly between your phone and PC.
If you set to show messages and notifications from your Android phone in the Your Phone app on your Windows 10 PC, you can turn on or off to show badges for unread messages and notifications from your phone in the Your Phone app and on the Your Phone taskbar icon in Windows 10.
If you turn on app badging for the Your Phone app, you can select to clear badges when you view unread items, when the app is open, or when you view that category of items.
This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off show badges for unread messages and notifications from your phone on the Your Phone app and taskbar icon in Windows 10.
Linking your iPhone or Android phone to your PC lets you switch seamlessly between your phone and PC.
You can use the phone screen feature in the Your Phone app on your Windows 10 PC to drag and drop files to copy to and from your supported Android phone with the Your Phone Companion – Link to Windows app installed.
This tutorial will show you how to use the Phone screen feature in the Your Phone app to drag and drop files to copy between your Android phone and Windows 10 PC.
When you link your phone and Windows 10 PC, you can control your music and audio apps from within the Your Phone app. Now you can access and control the audio apps playing from your phone directly within the app, without needing to split your attention between devices or breaking your workflow. Your audio tracks will remain in sync between your phone and PC, and you can switch between multiple sources using the dropdown in the player.
Key features
This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off show audio currently playing from your Android phone in the Your Phone app on a Windows 10 PC.
Linking your iPhone or Android phone to your PC lets you switch seamlessly between your phone and PC. Start a task on one of your devices and continue it on another.
You can text and see recent photos from your phone, right on your PC. Or if you’re on your phone, send webpages straight to your PC.
You can get more apps on your phone to make it work even better with your PC.
You can turn on or off Link to Windows on your Android phone to start and stop on demand allowing the phone to connect and be accessed by Windows 10 devices you linked your phone to.
This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off the Link to Windows feature to Windows 10 devices in the Your Phone Companion app on an Android phone.