or higher, you may be eligible for the Recent Apps experience. If your Android device is running Android 9.0 or greater with One UI 3.1.1. Compatible devices are marked with an asterisk (*). If your Android device is running Android 11.0 or higher, you may be eligible for the multiple apps experience. These phones include: Recently released devices: Phone screen is available on Android devices in select markets running Android 9.0 or greater that have Link to Windows installed (for some devices, it may be preinstalled). Interestingly, you can start a video project in Windows Photos, and then directly add images and videos into it from your phone.Link to Windows (pre-installed) is currently only available on the following Android devices in select markets. You can edit, customize with ink, and of course share photos with your friends once they're in the Photos app on the PC.

The pairing isn't permanent, mind you, it will have to be redone every time you want to transfer something over, but that's not very hard.

Once your phone and the Windows 10 Photos app are 'paired' after that barcode scan, you're able to batch send multiple photos to the PC over the same Wi-Fi network. To make sure that has the required functionality, grab the latest update from the Microsoft Store. To use it, after you've installed it from the iOS App Store or the Google Play Store, you just scan the QR code shown in the Windows Photos app. They will then be available in the Windows 10 Photos app. Its aim is to help you easily transfer the photos you have on your phone to your Windows 10 PC. It's called Photos Companion and its name is pretty self-explanatory. Microsoft has launched a new app for both Android and iOS today.

Ios your phone companion