How to know if you have been called on your mobile and answer messages from your PC
Microsoft wants the interaction between your mobile phone and PC to be more effective, practical and simple from now on. All thanks to two applications that make this communication possible, one that you must download on your Windows 10 PC called 'Your phone' and another on your mobile phone called 'Your Phone Companion' available for Android operating systems. iPhone users just need to download the PC application and follow the instructions to sync with this operating system.
The requirements to make the 'Your Phone Companion' application work are as follows: have a mobile with Android 7.0 or higher . You simply have to make sure you have this version of Android on your phone and, on the other hand, version 17134.0 of Windows 10 and ARM, ARM64, x64, x86 architecture. Next we will indicate the steps to follow to link your phone and PC.
Open the 'Your phone' application in Windows 10 and enter the phone number that we want to link with our computer. Next, . choose the operating system of your mobile phone. It is now the turn of your mobile application. Its installation interface is very simple and all you have to do is accept all the permissions it requests, essential for interactivity between the phone and the computer to be possible. You must bear in mind that the application will always run in the background, so the phone's battery could be shortened.
Once you have both applications synchronized, let's go into detail. Things you won't be able to do with this app? For example, to be notified of calls and to be able to accept or reject them from the computer itself. We hope that this function will be available in future updates so that, at least, we can hang up an inopportune call while we are working. Things that yes? Configure the applications from which you want to receive notifications (and we have the most common ones, such as WhatsApp), see the photos you have stored on your mobile and be able to download them to your computer or edit them with the pre-installed Windows 10 program and write and reply to traditional SMS.
What is most interesting is being able to configure the applications that we will receive on our computer to our liking. It is clear that we are only going to receive the notifications that we have previously activated on our phone. The interface of the computer application is very simple. We have a large screen where we see the information on photos, messages and notifications and, next to it, a small bar where we can move between the different sections.
At the bottom we have the 'Settings' section and this is where we will be able to choose which applications we want to have on our computer , if we want synchronized mobile photos as well as text messages.
The 'Your phone' mobile application will not serve much more than to serve as a link between itself and the computer. Even so, we can open the application to find popular Microsoft tools with which to increase our productivity on mobile, such as Microsoft Outlook, the official Microsoft browser, Edge or the Office suite. It is nothing more than a small repository of Microsoft applications that we can have to take a look from time to time but that, definitely, is not the highlight.
