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How to link your Android or iPhone to your Windows 10 PC

Windows 10 makes it very easy to link your Android or iPhone to Windows 10. With the “Continue on PC” option, you can access your apps (web pages) on your Personal Computer. This feature “Continue on PC” is currently available for devices running Windows 10 Fall Creators Update. Alternatively, you can get instant access to everything you love on your phone by linking your phone to your Personal Computer (PC). To get started, Install the Your Phone Companion – Link to the Windows app on your Android phone and link it with the Your Phone app on your Windows 10 PC. Kindly refer to this related guide: Uninstall Apps automatically: How to automatically Offload Unused Apps on iPhone. In this guide, you will learn how to link your Android or iPhone to your Windows 10 PC.

Here are some prerequisites that need to be met. Ensure you are running the latest version of Windows 10 and have a very good internet connection. Here are some related guides: Microsoft Phone Link: How to Link and Unlink an Android Phone to Windows 11, How to configure GPS location “Google Map” on your Android Studio Emulator, How to clear cookies, history, and cache in Safari, and How to restore accidentally deleted calendars, bookmarks, files, or contacts from iCloud.

To link your phone, follow the steps. Open the Settings app on your computer. There are various ways to launch the settings menu, you can just search for it by typing “settings” or using the below method.

– Next, click on the Phone Option.

Click on the option to “Add a phone” as shown below

What Kind of Phone do you have – iPhone

On the next window, select the kind of phone you will be adding. For me, I will be adding an iPhone.

Click on Continue to proceed with the linking

Sign in With Microsoft

Since I have not previously signed into Microsoft, I will be asked to do this

Enter your sign-in information (could be an email or phone etc). Click on continue

Enter your password in the next screen. If you have 2FA (MFA) turned on, you will be required to enter this code in order to proceed.

Click on Next to continue (Here Microsoft will remember your account) and make sign-in flawless.

You can alternatively click on “Microsoft apps only“, In this way, your account will be used to sign in easily to Microsoft apps only.

Next, you will be prompted to install Microsoft Edge on your phone, use the following link www.aka.ms/linkyourphone

Download Edge

Upon entering the URL, you will be redirected to Apple Store to have the App downloaded.

When you have installed Microsoft Edge as shown above on your phone

Next, you will be required to open edge on your iPhone to sign in as shown below

Now on your iPhone, open edge. Sign in and follow the prompts as shown below

As you can see below, you have successfully signed-in

The device Has been linked

When this is done, it will be displayed on your laptop (PC) that you have successfully linked your iPhone.

To test of this experience, sign-in to an app on your iPhone and then click on the three dots (…) to select the Continue on PC menu

Follow the steps to have your apps opened also on your PC.
– Click on your PC name to continue

On your laptop, this will be displayed on your PC as shown below

Kindly follow the steps described in this article to unlink your iPhone or Android from your device (PC).

I hope you found this blog post helpful on how to link your Android or iPhone to your Windows 10 PC. If you have any questions, please let me know in the comment session

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Steve
Steve
1 year ago

If you are already logged in to MS Edge on your iPhone, you may have to log out first and then back in again

Jeremiah Agware
1 year ago

It’s really a nice and useful piece of information. Thank you for sharing.

Last edited 1 year ago by Christian
Tunde
Tunde
1 year ago

This only work with edge browser but not with messages and calls

timothy karn
timothy karn
6 months ago

i have spent so much time with validation problems etc. i forgot why wanted to synch in the first place, plus why i even went online, numerous codes, names, e-mail addresses, passwords numbering in the teens. I am seriously about to give up.

Dmiky
Dmiky
1 month ago

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