Earlier this year, Microsoft tested a number of new icons for the Your Phone Companion app, and it looks like the company has settled on none of them. This should mean you no longer need to have your phone connected to Wi-Fi for your content to show up on your PC.īut that's not all this update brings.

The capability was announced by Microsoft's Roberto Bojorquez on Twitter, and it's disabled by default, but you can head into the app's settings to enable it starting with version 3.4.8. The biggest highlight of this release is the ability to sync with your computer even if you're using mobile data. This issue is fixed in the latest Link To Windows service, 2.1.05.1 or newer, available via the Galaxy Store Beta program.Microsoft has rolled out a pretty significant update to its Your Phone Companion app for Android, which, as the name suggests, works with the Your Phone app on your PC. You can work around this by opening the app from the app list first or having any other app open before clicking on the notification.

If you don't have the latest update to the Link to Windows service, clicking on a notification via toast or in the notifications feed won't launch the app if no other apps are running via the Your Phone app.

Some messages may still show in English only.

Narrator might not work properly for specific apps like Bixby, Camera, AR Zone.

A clean install of 20H1 or newer will not have this issue.

If you update to 20H1 after receiving the app update, launching an app pinned from Start/taskbar may not work.Other issues that Microsoft lists include: This issue is fixed for users running Android 11,' Microsoft warns. 'When using the Android Gmail app on PC to reply to an existing thread, the reply will not contain any fields including recipient's email, subject or previous thread if included.

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