Armed with that, simply point it at the QR code on your PC screen: Tap on that and after a moment or two, it’ll display a big, complicated QR Code graphic on the PC screen.īack on the Android device you can now tap on “ Continue” and allow the app to access your camera.

On your Windows device, the window has a button near the bottom labeled “Pair with QR code”. Time to switch back to the PC for a moment. Tap on “ Link your phone and PC” to proceed further. To confirm it’s the correct app for the task you seek – pairing your PC to your Android device – it will show the following screen: Once it’s installed, tap on “ Open” to launch Your Phone Companion.

Looks good? Then tap on the “ Install” button… Time to switch to the Android device! INSTALL YOURPC APP ON ANDROIDĪs noted, grab your Android device, open up the Web browser, and go to It will bounce you into the Google Play store where you want to install “ Your Phone Companion” from Microsoft Corporation :ĭouble-check that the app you’re viewing has similar stats and is also from Microsoft Corporation, as shown above. No surprise, tap or click on “ Get started” and it’ll step you through a couple of necessary setup tasks, then you’ll get to this screen: There’s a whole lotta blank space, and near the bottom is the button you seek: Confusing, isn’t it? 🙂Īnyway, that’s the app you want, so click or tap on it to launch the app. Start by searching for “my phone”, though the match will be “your phone”. Let’s start with the PC side of things, then we’ll switch to Android… YOUR PHONE APP ON WINDOWS To set things up, you’ll need to have your Android phone and Windows PC at hand, along with an online connection. You will need to be running Android 7.0 or newer, but given that the latest version of Android is Android 11, one hopes you’re at least within a few major version numbers on your mobile device. Better yet, there are no unknown software apps required from third-party vendors who might or might not be trustworthy with such a critical connection to your devices. It used to be that only iPhone users with Mac systems could have smooth interoperability between mobile device and desktop device, but Microsoft stepped up and now have a terrific solution too.

Microsoft phone companion