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

The app offers a lot of good features. Works great with Androids from what I tested. Not a fan of the notifications staying even after I cleared them on the computer. Can't close the window when in a call because it hangs up. It asks permission everytime you want to use the screen mirroring. Calls aren't a seamless or great in quality. I preferred using the Samsung Flow over this, had a better experience with it. Slows down computer and takes up a lot of RAM, battery, and CPU usage.

Can't remove linked devices once they are added. I have group chats and phone link is sending messages to the wrong contacts. Can't unlink the computer from my phone or vice versa. Edit: Support responded with instructions to unlink my phone. I don't need to remove my phone, I need to remove the computers on the account, everything really. Besides when I unlink my phone it still shows up in the Phone Link program on the computer. So that doesn't work anyway.

The app "Used" to work fine, never had an issue. Now that I upgraded from S24 Ultra to S25 Ultra, the entire app is completely broken. You are unable to manage your devices properly and delete your old phones, nothing about this app works correctly for long nor has anything ever been addressed yet they keep pushing "new features" to a broken app. Hell, I can't even delete this app from my phone and can only hide it. This is trash, at least Intel's version just works.