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Using Your PC with Your Mobile Phone

Did you know that you can use your Windows 11 computer to send and receive text messages? All you need is an Android phone (it doesn’t work with Apple iPhones), the Microsoft Phone Link app, and your Windows 11 PC. When everything’s synchronized, you can send and receive text messages on your PC, share web pages and other documents between your two devices, and even view all your phone’s photos on your big computer screen.

Linking Your Phone to Your Windows 11 PC

For your Android phone and Windows 11 computer to share text messages and other data, you first have to ...

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