Windows 10: Microsoft tests three new features for Windows 10’s Your Phone app

When Microsoft introduced Windows 10’s Your Phone app in October 2018, the app only allowed users to access all of the phone photos and send/receive text messages directly from your connected desktop. In the past few months, Microsoft has updated the application with multiple improvements.

Microsoft recently announced three useful features for Windows 10’s Your Phone app that would allow it to work better with Android devices. The latest update for Insiders introduces a feature that will allow you to tag your SMS messages with contact photos if those contacts are already synced to your device.

“You asked for it Windows Insiders. We have now started rolling out contact pictures in Your Phone. So if you have photos assigned to your contacts on your Android phone you’ll see those same photos for them in the app,” a Microsoft engineer announced the latest development on Twitter.

There’s another useful feature for Insiders that basically let users reply to text messages without opening the Your Phone app. This means when you receive notification of the text messages on your desktop, you should be able to reply to the SMS by directly typing the text on the interactive notification.

“Windows Insiders one more feature for you that we have added to messages in Your Phone: Inline reply! You can now reply to your text messages from the notification without having to open the app,” Microsoft employee confirmed the feature on Twitter.

The third feature is available for non-Insiders and it basically lets you right-click any photos and save it directly into your PC. Previously, the right-click menu only allowed users to copy & share photos.

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Windows Phone users Clubhouse

I think I'll put a list of people's favourite apps in the OP, starting with my own until I get some suggestions, but you can take a look at the Windows Phone app store at the top apps to see what's popular http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store

You are both now added, welcome! *Toast :toast:

 

New Phone Insider app for Windows 10 preview for Phones?

Unfortunately, at the moment, there's no way to sign into the app, which would suggest that it's not ready for the public to fully check out.

Microsoft already has a Preview for Developers app for Windows Phone 8.1 that allows users to download new builds of the OS before they are made available to wireless carriers. This new app would seem, at first glance, to be something different. However, we stress that Microsoft has yet to officially state they are launching a preview version of Windows 10 for smartphones. So take this speculation (and everyone else's) with a grain of salt.

• Download Phone Insider from the Windows Phone Store

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