The technological evolution of smartphones has led us to a situation in which our small mobile devices are true pocket computers. And with this, the need to keep the mobile phone connected to the computer is becoming more frequent. For example, to share images and documents. For those cases, Windows offers us a powerful tool like Mobile Link, which transfers your photographs from your mobile phone to your computer.
Last year, Microsoft began testing formulas to have the Cloud pc, and be able to connect to it without problems, both from a computer and from a mobile phone. A somewhat extravagant idea, but surely the future will end up going in that direction. Until that day arrives, we have other solutions.
What is Mobile Link?
In 2018, Microsoft introduced a new application designed specifically to tend a bridge between PCs (with Windows 10 and 11) and any other mobile device running Android operating systems. Its original name was "My phone", but the name was soon changed to Mobile Link.
The “Mobile Link” application (phone link) is available in the Microsoft store (although it is already installed by default in Windows 11). Through it we can connect our Android mobile to the PC and access all its functions. It is even possible to make phone calls without having to pick up your cell phone. Obviously, it will also be necessary Download the app from the Play Store on our mobile.
The requirements In order to make Enlace Link work, they are the following:
- A PC running Windows 2019 May 10 Update or later.
- An Android device running Android 7.0 (Nougat) or later.
How to sync Mobile Link
This is the way to correctly synchronize Mobile Link step by step and thus be able to start using it:
- First of all, you have to start Mobile Link (or look for it in the taskbar of our Windows 11 PC).
- Then it should select "Android" and, to complete the configuration, scan the QR code that shows.
- Finally, there is only customize notification preferences from “Features in Mobile Link on your PC” within the settings menu. For example, decide which apps can send us notifications
If you encounter difficulties when synchronizing, Microsoft has a help page in which they propose a series of solutions to the most common problems.
What is Windows Mobile Link for?
There are many ways in which this application can be useful to us in our daily lives. Total communication between PC and smartphone opens up a lot of interesting possibilities. Here is a brief summary of everything we will be able to do:
- Make and receive calls from your own PC. You can also check your call history or search for contacts.*
- Manage notifications of all kinds from your mobile or PC. Among other things, it is also possible to customize the alert banners according to our own preferences
- Maintain our communications and chats from any device. It is not necessary to unlock the phone to read text messages and even reply to them directly from our PC.
- Mute the phone or put it in "Do not disturb" mode.
- Verify aspects related to the operation of the phone from the PC such as battery level, WiFi connection, whether Bluetooth is activated, connection and current strength of the mobile data network, etc.
(*) For this function it is necessary that both devices be paired via Bluetooth. For the rest of the options, the WiFi connection is sufficient.
One aspect to keep in mind is that while we have the My Link option activated, the mobile phone will be consuming more resources and battery than usual. On the other hand, in addition to the possibilities of this list, we must highlight the share photos, which is the true purpose of this post. That is why it is the one that we are going to analyze in greater detail.
Share photos between mobile and PC
Without a doubt, this is the most interesting Mobile Link function for most users. We will can transfer the photos that we have captured from the mobile to the PC simply by dragging them to our desktop. We have all the usual options (open, open with, copy, share, delete, save...) as well as other photo editing options.
If you think about it, this is a very practical feature. We often find that the storage of our mobile device is overloaded with images and photography. And, let's be honest, the phone is not the most appropriate support to manage and classify all this content. Instead, do from a computer screen it is much more comfortable and simpler.
If only for this reason, it is worth installing Enlace Móvil and learning how to transfer photos from your mobile phone to your computer