Now’s your chance to wirelessly access your Android phone through Windows
No more dodgy USB cables ruining your file transfers.
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- Microsoft is giving Windows users a convenient way to wirelessly share files with Android devices from their PC.
- You’ll need both Link to Windows on your Android phone and Phone Link on your PC.
When you’re regularly trying to move files around between your phone and your PC, being stuck tethered to a USB cable kind of stinks. Thankfully, we live in a world where wireless connectivity is ubiquitous, so it was little surprise to see Microsoft working on a way to streamline that sort of access by letting you wirelessly connect to your Android phone through Windows File Explorer. Today the company starts expanding this kind of wireless cross-platform access, with the ability to send files to your phone through the Windows Share screen starting to roll out widely.
While doing transfers the wired way works, extending that functionality to wireless access is a big win for convenience and usability. We got our first sign of Microsoft working in this direction a few months back, and last month testers in the Windows Insider Program were able to start trying it for themselves. Now Microsoft announces that with Windows 11 Preview builds 22621.4112 and 22631.4112, wireless Android access through the Windows Share window is starting to hit the public at large:
