Your Phone: the smartphone settings on the PC

Your Phone: the smartphone settings on the PC

Your Phone

Microsoft's work on Your Phone (or Your Phone in English), the Windows 10 app that connects PC and smartphone, continues unabated. As anticipated by the Italian site Lumia Updates, in the future it will be possible to control some settings of the mobile device directly from the desktop.

Your Phone to control the smartphone settings from W10

Which ones? The activation or deactivation of Do Not Disturb mode, the switching on or off of the Bluetooth module, the volume and the audio player. Below is an animation that testifies to this. However, we will have to wait for the release of the update to version 1.21012.195.0, it is not known how long to wait.

Microsoft has started rolling out a new @MSYourPhone feature called "Device Indicators". Details here: https://t.co/yNJpf3WTv8 pic.twitter.com/IUJH7jUuKz

- Lumia Updates (@ALumia_Italia) February 18, 2021


Your Phone is one of the software on which Microsoft has focused more in the last period, aware of the need to create a communication bridge between the desktop and mobile ecosystem after the failure of projects such as the one related to Continuum technology despite the excellent premises. br>
Source: Lumia Updates



Microsoft's Your Phone app will soon let you change your phone's settings

The Your Phone app will soon have a new feature that lets you keep your smartphone in your pocket.

  • Microsoft's Your Phone app will soon let you control your smartphone's settings from your PC.
  • You'll be able to control the Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Do Not Disturb, and other settings through the app.
  • The feature rolls out with v1.21012.195.0 of Your Phone on Windows 10.
  • Microsoft's Your Phone app allows you to connect your smartphone and your Windows 10 PC in several ways. You can use the app to send text messages from your PC, look at images from your phone on your computer, and keep track of your phone's notifications from your PC. In an upcoming update for Your Phone on Windows 10, you'll be able to control some of your smartphone's settings from your PC.


    According to a report by Aggiornamenti Lumia, v1.21012.195.0 of the Your Phone app will add more options for controlling your smartphone. Following the update to that version, you'll be able to change your smartphone's settings for Bluetooth, Do Not Disturb, and some other settings from your PC.


    The Your Phone app has steadily gained features since its launch. Generally, the app allows you to keep your smartphone in your pocket or on your desk. With the added option to control smartphone settings from your PC, it should be even easier to keep your phone out of your hand and to get more done from your PC.


    The update with v1.21012.195.0 doesn't appear to be rolling out yet, so it might be some time before you see these new features.

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    Your Phone syncs your photos, text messages, and notifications between your phone and your PC. Soon, the app will let you control certain phone settings from your PC.