Microsoft Preparing Several New Features For 'Your Phone' App

Microsoft is preparing several new features for its Your Phone app. An upcoming update for the app volition bring pop-out conversation windows and phone call button for messages, and back up for text recognition in images.

The Your Telephone app tin can already mirror text messages from an Android phone to your Windows figurer. Now, with a new update, the app will permit conversations to be carve up into a separate window. Microsoft is too adding a phone call button within the conversations.

This is a handy addition if you usually have conversations going on throughout the 24-hour interval. You tin continue with your piece of work on your figurer while having your favorite chat always floating on top.

The fact that you can movement this pop-out window around your desktop and resize it at will adds another layer of convenience.

Adjacent up, the Your Phone app is also getting support for text recognition in images. Once this feature goes live, you will exist able to copy text from an epitome with a elementary correct-click on it.

This would make it easy to re-create phone numbers or addresses from an image sent to your device.

Microsoft adding new features to the Your Phone app

Microsoft's Your Phone app is a handy tool for Android users with a Windows calculator. This app allows you to mirror your telephone'southward screen to the desktop.

You can come across and answer to text and MMS messages, motility files to and from your computer, make or receive telephone calls, and view photos from your telephone directly on your desktop.

Now, the addition of pop-out conversations, call button inside letters, and text recognition in images makes this app even more useful. It remains to be seen if the new features will exist available for all Android smartphones or will exist express to certain models.

Although the ability to view photos and letters is available for all devices, features such as call support and screen mirroring are currently only bachelor on select Android devices.

There are likewise some features that are sectional to Samsung smartphones, cheers to a partnership between the two companies. The Your Phone app comes integrated with Samsung's One UI on its smartphones.

It's unclear when Microsoft plans to roll out these new features to the Your Phone app. Co-ordinate to Windows Latest, they should go far in the beta versions of the app in the coming weeks. General availability may yet be a couple of months away.