Microsoft announces 'Your app' to mirror your phone screen to PC

Microsoft, in its Build 2018 developer conference, announced a new app which will mirror a user’s phone to any Windows 10 PC.

The app named “Your Phone” is designed to provide a mirror of a phone straight to a desktop PC and let user access texts, photos, and notifications from the computer.

The app will be for both, Android and iOS, users. The app will eliminate the need to pick up the phone while working on the PC, in case a new message or a notification arrives.

The idea though is not original. Dell already tried this feature earlier this year allowing calls and notifications to be displayed on a PC. Microsoft’s app will not support call sync feature as yet.

The software giant will start testing the new app from this week and it will be released later this year for the general public.

Among other innovations which were announced at the conference was a specific feature which will be carried in the next version of Windows.

In place of a single window representing a single app, you will be able to create a ‘set’. A ‘set’ is a single window that contains tabs from different apps. For example, you could have a single window (‘set’) that contains a tab for Microsoft Word, alongside tabs from a few different websites in Edge.

The company is also bringing a feature which will allow a user to pick up where he or she left, even if it was on a different device, days ago.

The existing Timeline feature which keeps track of all the apps a user is using, and what he or she is doing in them.

“You can open up the Timeline to your history and go right back to where you were. Now, Microsoft is bringing the Timeline to iOS and Android, too. If you use the same apps on your phone and desktop, you’ll be able to pick something up on mobile that you started on a desktop,” the company said.