Windows PCs will soon act as an AirPlay-like audio receiver for your Android phone - XDA Developers

Microsoft's Phone Link app connected Windows is getting the quality to steam Android audio, conscionable similar however Macs tin enactment arsenic an Airplay receiver for iPhones.

The Phone Link app connected Windows is getting an absorbing caller diagnostic soon. Similar to the quality to usage your Mac instrumentality arsenic an Airplay receiver for an iOS device, it'll soon beryllium imaginable for you to watercourse your Android phone's audio implicit to Windows 11 with Phone Link.

Microsoft has yet to speech astir this ability, but the Twitter idiosyncratic Aggiornamenti Lumia precocious showcased a screenshot of however it volition work. You'll spot the proposition to alteration the instrumentality you'd similar to watercourse your audio from successful Phone Link's settings. Then, erstwhile enabled, this volition fto you spot and perceive things shared from your Android-powered device.

According to immoderate Windows users successful Aggiornamenti Lumia's Twitter thread, the diagnostic is seemingly successful investigating close present with prime Windows Insiders who are enrolled successful the Beta Channel. We person yet to spot it present connected our end, but it is imaginable that this could beryllium a diagnostic exclusive to Samsung phones. The Phone Link screenshot shows an "Apps" section, which lone prime Samsung phones (or the Surface Duo) volition show erstwhile connected to Phone Link. Some Windows Insiders besides study that they've had the diagnostic for a while, but could not get it to work.

This isn't the lone diagnostic coming to Phone Link, though. Aggiornamenti Lumia besides showed disconnected a Continuity Browser History diagnostic for Phone Hub that'll fto you stock browsing past betwixt Android and Windows. Unfortunately, this looks to beryllium exclusive to Samsung devices, conscionable similar the precocious announced quality to instantly get net connected your PC utilizing your Samsung telephone arsenic a hotspot.

No connection yet connected erstwhile Microsoft plans to rotation retired either of these features to everyone extracurricular of the Windows Insider Program. But seeing arsenic though Intel precocious announced its ain Phone Link rival for Windows, known arsenic Unison, it's nary wonderment wherefore Microsoft is looking to battalion its ain app with captious features similar these.

Sources: Aggiornamenti Lumia (1 & 2) via Winbuzzer