That system is opt-in and more comprehensive, whereas Your Phone is a more local, momentary way to make messaging easier.Īs for the status of Skype SMS relay, your guess is as good as ours. The Skype system relies on sharing your messages to the Microsoft cloud, resulting in privacy concerns for some. Your Phone's SMS handling and Skype SMS relay (if it ever comes to Android) will exist independently. With a more direct way of managing – and creating – SMS text messages you could see how Microsoft would abandon the Skype SMS relay project, which seems never to be ready. Whether Your Phone can and will handle phone calls remains to be seen, but like many things, its prioritization will be driven by user feedback and demand. Dell knows this as its full-phone found in devices like the XPS 13 (9370) only works on newer hardware. Microsoft Your Phone Companion App on the Samsung family of phones (Note 10, Note 20/Note 20 Ultra) allows you to read notifications, reply to text messages. Making and receiving calls through your phone's speakers and microphones may seem obvious, but there are a lot of mitigating factors to make such a system work. To access Recent Apps from the Phone Link app, do the following: On your device, open the Phone Link app. Right-click the app you want to use, and then select Open.

Surface Logo (Image credit: Daniel Rubino / Windows Central)Ĭurrently, there is no support for handling incoming phone calls on your PC, but Microsoft is exploring the idea and would like to bring some support to Windows 10 through Your Phone. In the flyout menu that appears, do either of the following: Click the app you want to open.

Open the your phone companion app