The Android app requires very very invasive permissions given what it needs to accomplish and it needs to be able to run in the background and wants to have you disable certain android system settings like battery management.Ī hurdle is that 'Your Phone' on Windows 10 requires very specific WiFi interoperability on your private network.

The iOS single feature is hardly worth having anyway and forces you to install the Microsoft Edge browser for iOS in what you might be tempted to think is a classic example of a 'bait and switch'. Having now tried pretty hard with Windows 10 Pro 圆4 version 1909 build 18363.1256 and Android 8.1, 9, 10 and 11 and iOS 12, and iOS 14 I can confidently say this app does not work for me. That is quite a feature gap which is explained opaquely by the very first screen of the app which has a notice saying that to experience full functionality you must be running Android 7.0 or later. So it’s worth checking out.Windows 10 Your Phone app, first screen - Your Phone animated screenshots And if you are using the Photos app on Windows 10 and want to take advantage of its rich new photo editing and video creation capabilities, this looks like a great way to get at your phone-based content. The Photos Companion was originally created for the education market, but it could obviously be of interest to a much broader audience than that.

“This enables to transfer media to their own computers … without worrying about network speeds or mobile data charges.” “The app supports direct wireless transfer between any phone or mobile device and the Photos app on any Windows 10 PC,” Microsoft explains. But it’s an interesting idea, even for those who are already backing up photos to the cloud: It lets you transfer photos and videos from a phone to a Windows 10 PC, assuming they’re both on the same Wi-Fi network. Photos Companion is a Microsoft Garage project, meaning that you might not want to get too attached to it: Microsoft has a history of quietly abandoning Garage projects that don’t pan out or step on the toes of its more formal software projects.

Microsoft has released its Photos Companion app for Android and iOS, which integrates with the Photos app in Windows 10.

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