Microsoft rebrands its Android Your Phone companion app to Phone Link

Microsoft is rebranding its Your Telephone app to Telephone Hyperlink and updating it with a Home windows 11 design overhaul. Your Telephone launched greater than three years in the past as a key strategy to hyperlink an Android telephone to Home windows and keep away from choosing up your machine to verify calls or notifications. Telephone Hyperlink is of course a greater description for the app, and it has now been up to date to match the Home windows 11 design adjustments.

Telephone Hyperlink now locations the notification panel upfront, and the notifications tab is now pinned to the left-hand aspect panel. Microsoft has additionally moved the Messages, Photographs, Apps, and Calls sections right into a navigation bar that sits on the prime of Telephone Hyperlink. The notifications part has additionally been cleaned as much as make it simpler to see the notifications that matter.

The up to date Telephone Hyperlink app features a colour palette and design that matches Home windows 11, with refreshed controls, illustrations, and iconography. The Your Telephone Companion app for Android can also be being rebranded to Hyperlink to Home windows, and each apps will share the identical icon.

Past the adjustments in design, Microsoft can also be making Telephone Hyperlink obtainable in China due to a partnership with Honor. Telephone Hyperlink now helps the Honor Magic V, Magic 4 collection, and Magic 3 collection of gadgets. In any other case, the very best Telephone Hyperlink options are nonetheless largely restricted to Samsung handsets and Microsoft’s Floor Duo gadgets.

The most recent Telephone Hyperlink replace is accessible as we speak, and with the following Home windows 11 replace, you’ll additionally be capable to allow Telephone Hyperlink simply by scanning a QR code throughout setup.