


You can now use the Link to Windows app to scan the QR code. When you receive the prompt for Is there a QR code on your PC?, tap it, and then select Allow to let the Link to Windows app take pictures and record videos. If you've started linking your devices from your PC, you'll be asked to scan a QR code during the setup process. If your issue isn't addressed below, try the Phone Link app troubleshooting page. Make sure your PC and Android device are both nearby, turned on, and connected to the same Wi-Fi network. If you were able to set up the app but your content isn't syncing, our connection troubleshooting tips may help. For more information, see Introducing Microsoft Phone Link and Link to Windows. In addition, the Your Phone Companion app for Android is now called Link to Windows. We would also have liked the app to load the iPhone keyboard when we needed to type anything in rather than insist on us using the forwards/backwards controls instead.Note: We’ve changed the name of the Your Phone app to Microsoft Phone Link. We would have liked in-game control, not to play Call of Duty but the more silly games like Bejewelled, for example. In use and it is all very easy, with the app working as expected. You will also be able to check your gamer profile and see the levels you have achieved so far. That’s handy if you aren’t looking to play games, but watch some movies instead.īeyond replicating the d-pad and the coloured buttons, the app will also allow you to launch previous games, discover new content - be it games, music, or video - and see what games you’ve recently played with your Xbox ID whether they are on a Windows Phone device, the Xbox, or Windows 8. Although the app doesn’t go as far as letting you replace your Xbox 360 controller – why would you anyway – you can use it to zip around the menu system as well as control the play, pause, fast forward and rewind media controls.
