Windows 10: What apps on my PC can stop me from making phone link calls

What apps on my PC10 can interfere with me making calls

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Your Phone App: Ringtone and Call quality terrible?

Hi,

Anyone help with this? Thanks.

Windows 10 version: 1909 (Build: 18363.815)
Your Phone App version: 1.20041.85.0
Your Phone Companion Link to Windows app version: 1.20041.82.0
Link to Windows Service version: 1.0.5.2.30

Samsung Galaxy S10: Android 10 / OneUI 2.1

It worked fine using my Surface Pro 4 but on my new Surface Pro X the Ringtone and Call Quality through the Your Phone app are terrible: Constant crackling, tapping whatever you want to call it. Kind of like coins being dropped.

All other aspects of Your Phone work wonderfully.

I've tried:

Phone:

1. Bluetooth: Unpairing the Surface Pro X
2. Your Phone Companion App: Clearing Application Data/Cache

Surface Pro X:

1. Settings -> Bluetooth: Unpairing the phone
2. Settings -> Phone: Unlinking the phone
3. Settings -> Apps: Your Phone App: Repair and Reset

I then set it all up again which went through all fine.

I've also tried:

1. Device Manager -> All Bluetooth Drivers -> Update Driver
2. Paired a Bluetooth speaker to my Surface Pro X. This works fine.

I suspect the issue is related to the Your Phone App and Bluetooth but don't know where to check next?

Because the crackling noise seems to be bluetooth related.

Thanks

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How can I disable the "Link your Phone and PC" notification in Windows 10?

The new "Continue on PC" feature that came with the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update also includes a notification that pops up saying "Link your Phone and PC". Answering no or clearing the notification gets rid of it, but after some amount of time and/or a reboot, it continuously comes back.

Presumably, if you actually install the app to link your phone it will stop giving you the notification, and I am also aware that you can completely disable suggestion notifications; however, I do not wish to use the phone link feature and I would prefer not to disable all future suggestions, as I could possibly be interested in one of them. Is there a way to specifically disable a single specific suggestion notification?

 

Phone Link Closing When Making Calls

Since updating to Windows 11, and the Phone Companion app updating to Phone Link, I can no longer use it to make or receive calls. I have updated the Phone Link and the Link to Windows app for Android to the latest versions, cleared the cache and user data on the device, unpaired and removed the Bluetooth device from the PC, and reset the Phone Link app, all to no avail.

The app works fine for photos, notifications, messages, and even the call history, but when initiating a call, the app suddenly closes (but the call continues through the PC). This is frustrating because the call controls, status/timer, etc. are not visible after the app closes itself, and even if I restart the app during the call, it doesn't seem to know there's an ongoing call (therefore no call controls).

Has anyone else experienced this behaviour? It was working perfectly well prior to the update.