Microsoft’s Your Phone app gets more control over your phone
Microsoft wants to make Windows 10 users less dependent on being able to “ physically touch, ” a goal it is pursuing with its Your Phone app for Android and Windows. In the most recent update to Your Phone, Microsoft is adding four controls to the app.
Your Phone Control Capabilities
The Your Phone application on Windows 10 allows you to control Android phones without touching them. Last year, Microsoft added controls for music services, and Samsung phone owners can even remotely control an Android app. In a recent update, four controls have been added that change the settings of your phone. Microsoft calls the function ‘Device indicators’, Aggiornamenti Lumia reports.
With the four controls you can switch Bluetooth on or off on the connected phone, activate the do not disturb mode, mute the (media) sound of the connected phone and finally, after the update of Your Phone, you can use the media player with one click Switch off. Information about the latter function is scarce. It is therefore still unknown what this will do exactly, given that the app can currently operate various music players.
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Once the update has been implemented, there are again fewer reasons to take the phone out of your pocket to operate it. You can currently receive notifications from your phone, retrieve images, send text messages and make phone calls via the ‘Your Phone’ app. Operating your phone is done on Windows via the Your Phone app, and for Android the Your Phone Companion app has been developed – you can download this app from the Play Store.
Rollout of control options
It is still unknown when everyone will receive the update from Your Phone. Aggiornamenti Lumia has been cautious about providing an indicator and says the update will roll out gradually. As with previous updates of this app, it will take a few weeks before everyone can use these functions. To check if the update has arrived, check the version number of the app on your computer – if it is v1.21012.195.0 or later, the new features should appear in the app.
The controls for Android devices, image: Aggiornamenti Lumia
It is not known whether an update is required for the Your Phone Companion. At the time of writing this article, the correct update was not yet present on our Windows computers. Did you get the job started immediately? Let us know for sure in the comments at the bottom of the article – let us know in the comment what the version number of the application on your phone is.
