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

I think the notifications and messaging works well. The audio calling, not so much. It's useful to a degree but it would be much more useful if you were not required to pick up your phone and manually authenticate to remote into the phone. If I have to pick up the phone, I may as well not use the Phone Link app on the windows computer. My suggestion is make the manual authentication optional and let the user decide.

App kinda works but does not always synch up correctly. I like the idea and the concept. The interface must be connected to the phone to work. I was hoping this would help if my screen was ever cracked, but have to login with my ms account occasionally. I'm sure that's a security condition. Hope Microsoft doesn't end up abandoning this app like they did the windows phone. Microsoft really left me hanging with that deal. :(

Really nice to be able to follow tel links or to text from Windows, BUT: Constant link notifications are a major PITA (cannot find a reliable way to silence them!), and I NEVER want my actual phone call audio to go through Windows. Might be a good app one day, but it's clearly only half do e now, and at MS's usual pace it will be Win 13 before this works as it should.

What's new

Link to Windows now supports file transfer directly between your Android device and PC. Share files quickly between your devices without extra steps like cables or emails.