your messages, calls and photos directly on Home

If soon it will be possible to access the internal storage of the mobile phone without having it connected by cable to a PC with Windows 11, now Microsoft brings the experience closer to bring notifications and other functions to the same home menu of your operating system. Everything is close at hand so you don’t even have to look at your phone when you’re on your computer.

And just recently some lines of code were found that gave clues about this possible functionality through Mobile Link, the Microsoft app to link the PC to the Android mobile and vice versa. The user’s mobile phone would appear through that app in Windows 11 as a ‘Companion’ or companion right next to the start menu in a tile.

Now that rumor becomes a reality, since Microsoft has released an update that includes this feature among other new features. The tech giant has released the build Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.3790 (KB5039307) after announcing it from his blog. In this update Mobile Link appears to be available from the start menu as a ‘companion’.

The peculiar thing about this novelty is that Mobile Link is available for iOS and Android so the user can see battery status, connectivity and access messages, calls and photos directly from the Windows start menu; similar to the experience iPhone users have on the Mac.

The ‘companions’ appear as mosaics that can be added to one of the sides of the start menu; They are like interactive cards and work like a reduced version of widgets. It is not something new to the Microsoft operating system, but it is the ideal space to integrate with the user’s mobile phone so that at a quick glance they can see the status of the battery, if the Bluetooth is connected and the recent notifications, whether they are calls , messages or a photograph.

In order to enjoy this new experience according to MSPoweruserapart from having version KB4039307 from the Windows Insider beta channel, you need to have the app on Android and iOS updated to version 1.24052.124.0 or higher. A very important initiative to put aside the smartphone when you are with the PC and thus, for what is important, simply click on the start menu to access notifications, calls or the last photograph taken with the mobile.