We introduced the Your Phone experience more than three years ago, allowing you to keep your smartphone in your pocket and still be able to access your photos and texts on your computer. Today we are thrilled to announce the evolution of Your Phone app as Phone Link.

So it’s worth checking out.Phone Link, formerly known as Your Phone, brings your Android phone and your Windows PC closer together. And if you are using the Photos app on Windows 10 and want to take advantage of its rich new photo editing and video creation capabilities, this looks like a great way to get at your phone-based content. The Photos Companion was originally created for the education market, but it could obviously be of interest to a much broader audience than that. “This enables to transfer media to their own computers … without worrying about network speeds or mobile data charges.” “The app supports direct wireless transfer between any phone or mobile device and the Photos app on any Windows 10 PC,” Microsoft explains. But it’s an interesting idea, even for those who are already backing up photos to the cloud: It lets you transfer photos and videos from a phone to a Windows 10 PC, assuming they’re both on the same Wi-Fi network. Photos Companion is a Microsoft Garage project, meaning that you might not want to get too attached to it: Microsoft has a history of quietly abandoning Garage projects that don’t pan out or step on the toes of its more formal software projects. Microsoft has released its Photos Companion app for Android and iOS, which integrates with the Photos app in Windows 10.

My phone companion app