your messages, calls and photos directly on Home

If soon it will be possible to access the internal storage of the mobile phone without connecting it by cable to a PC with Windows 11, Microsoft is now bringing the experience closer to bring notifications and other functions to the same home menu of your operating system. Everything is at your fingertips, you don’t even have to look at your phone when you’re on your computer.

And recently, we found a few lines of code that gave clues about this possible functionality via Mobile Link, Microsoft’s application to connect the PC to the Android mobile and vice versa. User’s mobile phone would appear through this application in Windows 11 as a “Companion” or companion right next to the Start menu in a tile.

Now this rumor is becoming reality, since Microsoft has released an update that includes this feature among other new features. The tech giant released the version Windows 11 Insider Preview build 22635.3790 (KB5039307) after announcing it on his blog. In this update, Mobile Link appears to be available from the Start menu as a “companion.”

The particularity of this novelty is that Mobile Link is available for iOS and Android so that the user can see battery status, connectivity and access messages, calls and photos directly from the Windows Start menu; similar to the iPhone users experience on Mac.

The “companions” appear as mosaics which can be added to one of the sides of the Start menu; They look like interactive maps and work like a smaller version of widgets. This is not something new in the Microsoft operating system, but it is the ideal space to integrate into the user’s mobile phone so that they can see at a quick glance the battery status, whether Bluetooth is connected and recent notifications, whether they are calls, messages or a photograph.

In order to enjoy this new experience according to MSPoweruserin addition to having version KB4039307 from the Windows Insider beta channel, you must have the application on Android and iOS updated to version 1.24052.124.0 or more. A very important initiative to put aside the smartphone when you are with the PC and so, what is important, just click on the start menu to access notifications, calls or the last photo taken with the mobile .