Although today, there are many users who only use a smartphone or tablet to communicate with the world through the Internet, you can't always do without a computer and we have seen a clear example during the coronavirus pandemic.
If you want to know How to connect your Android mobile or tablet to a PC via Wi-Fi, you have come to the right article, an article where we are going to show you all the available options, both free and paid, available in the Google Play Store.
Your telephone
One of the applications that you will have come across on more than one occasion on your Windows 10 or Windows 11 PC is Your Phone, an app that Microsoft includes natively (Also available in the Microsoft Store for Windows 8.x PCs.)
With the Your Phone app, we can access our device completely wirelessly and interact with both notifications and text messages along with photos and videos.
But, in addition, if our device has bluetooth, we can also use a fantastic function that allows us to make calls from our PC once it is associated with an Android smartphone.
Regrettably, what we can not do is receive calls, an option that, sooner or later, will surely come to Windows.
This function currently it is only available for all devices of the Korean manufacturer Samsung. But, in addition, it also allows us to display any application installed on our smartphone on the screen of our computer equipment and interact with it in the same way that we do from our mobile.
How to set up the Your Phone app
Microsoft makes available to us Two options to link our smartphone to a PC with Windows:
- Through a QR code
- With a PIN code
The first thing we must do is install the Your Phone Companion application on our Android device, an application completely free available through the following link.
Once we have downloaded and installed the Android application, we will proceed to open it, both in new mobile and in our PC.
- From our mobile, click on Pair the phone and the computer.
- Next, click on Continue so that it opens the camera of our device and we scan the QR code that the application for Windows shows us.
- Finally, the application for PC will show us a PIN code, code that we must introduce in the application.
If you have any problems when associating both applications, you can choose to use link both applications using your Microsoft account.
Closing remarks
Once we have associated both applications, we must give you the necessary permissions so that the application can work correctly and show us all the information that it is capable of offering us.
Once we run the Windows application for the first time, it will invite us to go to our smartphone to give it the necessary permissions to be able to access notifications, text messages, album and call list.
If we do not authorize access to this data, some of the functions of the application they won't work properly, so I recommend you accept them all. This is a Microsoft app, not an app from a developer you don't even know at home.
What can we do with the Your Phone application
Notifications
From the Your Phone application, we can access all notifications that we receive on our smartphone, notifications that will be displayed on our computer as if it were a native Windows application.
If it is a messaging application, such as WhatsApp, Telegram, Viber, Line or any other, we will be able to reply from the notification itself. However, unless we install the respective applications for Windows, we will not be able to start a conversation.
Text messages
Although in Spain and Latin America SMS is not used On a regular basis, with this application we can access this type of messages and respond to them.
Photos
If we click on the Photos section, the Your Phone application will show us all the photographs and images that we have stored on our device, content that, in addition, we will be able to copy to our PC by dragging them to the directory we want.
Calls
The last option that the Your Phone application does not offer is found in the possibility of make calls from our PC, as long as it has bluetooth, otherwise you will not be able to use this function.
AirDrop
Before the launch of Your Microsoft Phone, the best method to be able to access the content of our smartphone from a PC without using cables was to use the AirDrop application.
AirDrop not only offers us the same functions as Your Phone, but also allows us to duplicate the screen on our PC, a functionality that can come in handy on very specific occasions.
This app is available for download free of charge, includes ads and in-app purchases, purchases that allow us to remove GB limit when transferring between both devices.
Send Anywhere
If the only intention to connect both devices is transfer files, the application you are looking for is Send Anywhere, an application that we can download for free but that, like the previous one, contains ads and purchases to eliminate transfer limits.
Sweech – Wifi File Transfer
A less well-known application but equally useful as the previous ones, we find it in Sweech, an application with which, through any browser, we can share any type of file, be it documents, images, videos, mp3...
Sweech is available for download completely free of charge and, like the previous ones, includes ads and in-app purchases.
AirMore
The last app we talk about in this compilation is AirMore, an app that was a great alternative to AirDrop until stopped updating two years ago, so on newer devices it doesn't work properly.
However, if we have an old smartphone or tablet, it is likely that it will not show us any performance problems. Unlike the previous ones, this application is available for download for free, does not include ads or in-app purchases.
