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TL;DR
- Microsoft is enhancing Home windows 11 by including a devoted Telephone Hyperlink panel to the beginning menu for simpler Android gadget administration.
- This new panel supplies fast entry to your cellphone’s standing, messages, calls, pictures, and up to date exercise immediately from the beginning menu.
- It additionally features a “ship information” button for seamless file transfers and shortcuts to the primary Telephone Hyperlink app and related settings.
If you wish to management your Android cellphone from a Home windows PC, there’s no higher software than Microsoft’s Telephone Hyperlink. To get began, merely open the Telephone Hyperlink app in your Home windows PC and obtain the Hyperlink to Home windows companion app in your Android cellphone. Observe the setup information, and also you’ll quickly be displaying your cellphone’s notifications, textual content messages, pictures, and extra immediately in your PC. Repeatedly opening the Telephone Hyperlink app in your PC to entry your cellphone’s content material might be cumbersome, so Microsoft is rolling out an replace to the Home windows 11 begin menu that provides a devoted Telephone Hyperlink panel.
Situated to the fitting of the Home windows 11 begin menu, the Telephone Hyperlink panel presents a fast look at your gadget’s standing, together with its connection standing and battery stage. It additionally options buttons for Messages, Calls, and Images, offering direct entry to your textual content messages, name historical past, and picture gallery inside the primary Telephone Hyperlink app.
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Beneath this, the ‘Current’ part shows your most up-to-date cellphone calls, textual content messages, and pictures. Whereas it doesn’t present latest notifications immediately, you’ll be able to configure these to seem as banners within the backside proper nook of your display screen. Equally, your most lately opened apps aren’t listed right here, however you’ll be able to rapidly entry them by clicking the Telephone Hyperlink icon within the system tray. (As a reminder, Telephone Hyperlink can stream Android apps to your Home windows 11 PC, although this function is proscribed to sure gadgets.)
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Lastly, a outstanding “ship information” button sits on the backside of the Telephone Hyperlink panel. Clicking this opens a brand new window the place you’ll be able to both drag and drop information or use the “choose information” choice to browse and select information through File Explorer. Adjoining to the “ship information” button, a context menu supplies shortcuts to: open the primary Telephone Hyperlink app; entry settings to customise which latest actions the panel shows; and open Home windows 11’s common begin menu settings.
Microsoft is steadily rolling out the Telephone Hyperlink panel to the beginning menu on all Home windows 11 PCs. I acquired it on my PC (operating Home windows 11 model 26100.4061) at the moment, although the rollout to customers on the secure channel has been underway for a minimum of the previous week. This function was accessible to Home windows Insiders within the Beta and Dev channels for a number of months, so it’s good to see Microsoft lastly bringing it to everybody on the newest secure launch of Home windows 11.
