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

Unusable. All I wanted to do was transfer some files from my Android phone to my PC. This used to be easy--plug it into the USB port, open Windows Explorer, bam. Now it is literally impossible because when I try to get through the ridiculous number of sign-in steps required to link my devices, I cannot proceed because "something went wrong" with my Microsoft account. It used to be so easy...

Since a recent update, don't know if from the phone or Windows, but my phone is CONSTANTLY connecting and disconnecting, over and over and over, non stop, until I eventually just force disconnect at least twice... then it will stabilize for a couple of hours or a day. I'm having zero service or connectivity issues on either the phone or laptop. This app is the only thing doing it.

A nightmare. I simply want to move a photo from phone to pc. It was simple with all previous phones i had. Samsung trys to do way too much and makes it into a fiasco where you end up changing every setting on your phone almost till your head is spinning, you have a migrain and you have yelled at anyone near you. I just want transfer a photo not change the world.