Microsoft has just updated its mobile application link with Windows to integrate a new function. You can now use your Android smartphone to lock your PC.
Your Android smartphone can now be used to lock your Windows 11 PC remotely. Microsoft is indeed deploying an update of its application link with Windows integrating this new option.
Log your PC remotely from your smartphone
Do you move away from your PC without having looped it and that you fear that a colleague will take the opportunity to make you a joke? Rest assured. If you use the Android application link with Windows, you can manually lock your PC directly from your smartphone.
To take advantage of it, it is therefore necessary to have an up -to -date version of the application (in its version stamped 1,25071,165 or more recent). You will also need to have connected your Android smartphone upstream to your PC. You will need to download and install the link with Windows on Android, and the mobile app connected to Windows 11.
The connection process between the smartphone and the PC has nothing very rocket science. It is enough that your two devices are connected to the same Wi-Fi network, and that your Microsoft account is connected in the link link with Windows on Android, and mobile connected to Windows. Then just validate the connection of the two devices between them so that they can access each other to the content of one and the other.
Once this formality is filled, you will find in the application link with Windows, on your Android smartphone, a new page allowing access to the PC to which the smartphone is connected.
This page offers several new control options. You can, for example, initiate a file sharing from your smartphone to your PC, or choose to broadcast the screen of your mobile on your computer. It is also from this new control page that you can remotely lock your PC from your smartphone.
An update gradually deployed
The update of the Android application link with Windows is currently still being deployed. There is also a good chance that this deployment will be done gradually by Microsoft.
On our two Android test smartphones, a Pixel 6 and a Samsung Galaxy S25, the update incorporating this new feature was still not available when we write these lines. It will undoubtedly have to wait for a few more days, even a few weeks, before all users can take advantage of it.
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By: opera
Source :
Windows Central
