Microsoft is removing the Photos section from its Phone Link app and shifting photo access directly to File Explorer. This means users will now see their phone's images directly in the File Explorer: ...

Microsoft starts testing a new feature that makes it easier to access files from an Android device. Microsoft starts testing a new feature that makes it easier to access files from an Android device.

Through its Phone Link app, Microsoft has been making it easier to have a connected experience between Android and Windows and, soon, that might include accessing your phone’s file directly from File ...

Microsoft Phone Link will soon let you broadly access your phone from Windows File Explorer. The new feature of Microsoft’s Cross Device Experience Host looks set to bring the same accessibility to ...

Microsoft is advancing its integration of Windows and Android devices with a new feature in testing for Windows Insiders. It allows users to directly access their Android phone’s storage through the ...

Don't miss out on our latest stories. Add PCMag as a preferred source on Google. When it comes to transferring photos from my phone to my desktop PC for backup, I'm still a big fan of just plugging in ...

Linking your Android phone to File Explorer does exactly what you’d expect: your smartphone files are listed within Windows File Explorer, seamlessly integrated alongside regular PC files, OneDrive, ...

It’s possible to connect most Android phones to a PC with a USB cable and treat the phone as a USB mass storage device if you want to drag and drop files between devices or make other changes. Soon ...

Microsoft has been hard at work further integrating Android devices into Windows 11, recently allowing users to draft in their phones as makeshift webcams. Riding the same wave of inter-device ...

One of Microsoft’s unexpected success stories on the PC is Phone Link, the way in which you can monitor and use your Android phone while working on your PC. So it’s a shame that Microsoft is ...

Those who run Windows 11 may want to install the latest update to snag some helpful new features. Kicked off on Tuesday, this week's update from Microsoft, dubbed KB5041587, adds a new way to share ...