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Control your Android smartphone from your Windows desktop

What you need: Windows 10 or 11; smartphone running Android 7.0 or later

Time required: 30 minutes

icrosoft’s excellent Phone Link (previously called Your Phone) is a free Windows tool that lets you control your phone from your deskop. A recent update added useful new features, as we’ll explain. It uses Bluetooth and your Wi-Fi network to link your devices, so you can use your PC to see your photos, and respond to your phone’s notifications andtext messages. You can even make and receive phone calls from your computer without touching your.

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