Link to Windows

Microsoft Corporation

About this app

You love your phone. So does your PC. Get instant access to everything you love on your phone, right from your PC. To get started, install the Link to Windows app on your Android phone and connect it with the Phone Link on your Windows PC.

Link your Android phone and PC to view and reply to text messages, make and receive calls*, view your notifications, and more.

Make emailing yourself photos a thing of the past as you share your favorite images between your phone and PC. Copy, edit, and even drag and drop photos without ever touching your phone.

Phone Link features:
• Make and receive calls from your PC*
• Manage your Android phone's notifications on your PC
• Access your favorite mobile apps** on your PC
• Read and reply to text messages from your PC
• Drag files between your PC and phone**
• Copy and paste content between your PC and phone**
• Instantly access the photos on your phone from your PC
• Use your PC's bigger screen, keyboard, mouse, and touch screen to interact with your phone from your PC.

Integrated with select** Microsoft Duo, Samsung, and HONOR phones for an even better experience:
The Link to Windows app comes integrated so no additional apps need to be downloaded from the Play Store.
Link to Windows is easy to find in the Quick Access tray (swipe down from the top of your screen to access it).
Exclusive features like cross-device copy and paste, Phone screen, file drag-and-drop, and Apps.

Let us know what features you'd like to see next by selecting “Send feedback” in the Phone Link settings.

*Calls requires a Windows 10 PC with Bluetooth capability.

**Drag and drop, Phone screen and Apps all require a compatible Microsoft Duo, Samsung or HONOR device (full list and breakdown of capabilities: aka.ms/phonelinkdevices). The multiple apps experience requires a Windows 10 PC running the May 2020 Update or later and has at least 8GB of RAM, and your Android device must be running Android 11.0.

The Link to Windows accessibility service is for those using a screen reading tool on the PC. When the service is enabled, it lets you control all your phone’s apps from your PC using Android keyboard navigation while receiving spoken feedback from your PC speakers. No personal or sensitive data is collected via Accessibility Service.

By installing this app, you agree to the Microsoft Terms of Use https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=246338 and Privacy Statement https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=248686.

Ratings and reviews

Pros and cons. I like the seamless file transfer, notifications coming through, and file sharing between devices. The issue I have is that even when you click the 'Disconnect' button the app will start up again and connect to your PC. What is the point of including that option if it just auto-reconnects anyway, and that's with quitting the program on PC, and on your phone. For a future update it would be nice that if you disconnect, you can't reconnect unless you open the app again .

Update (Aug 6, 2025): I left a 1-star review on Aug 4 about clipboard sync between my Galaxy S25 Ultra and Surface Pro 6 not working. The team reached out asking me for more details and pushed out an update 2 days later that fixed it completely. Well done to the team for the quick turnaround. This is a great app—the copy/paste and file transfer features work well. Given the huge variety of Android and Windows versions and devices, I think they do an impressive job of keeping it working.

I can't view messages, only sees existing messages when first paird and wont update. Only showing messages as temporary notification that are volatile and vanish randomly. Interface sucks, you cant interact with most things, no right click no options. I falsely thought a message failed to send despite it actually not failing and constantly prompted me to retry. No option to cancel.