Windows 11 now lets you access Android phones via File Explorer

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It’s been a very long time coming! Microsoft is lastly alive to to augment integration between Windows 11 computer techniques and Android phones. Must you detest transferring recordsdata between the 2, there’s precise knowledge forward.
Microsoft has started beta checking out a brand unique characteristic that permits you to “glance your Android phone in File Explorer” and “wirelessly flick via your total folders and recordsdata, at the side of media that is on your Android phone.”

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No longer most effective will you be ready to admire a look at what’s on your phone, but you’ll even be ready to transfer, replica, delete, rename, and even begin straight with out first bringing recordsdata and folders over to your PC.
The finest phase is that you won’t even want a USB cable for this. Which that you shall be ready to acquire entry to your Android phone wirelessly, which is inconceivable knowledge for anyone who wants to work with their phone via Windows on a conventional basis.
In yell for this to work:
- Your phone wants to be running Android 11 or later.
- Your phone wants the beta model of the Hyperlink to Windows app that’s on hand on the Google Play Store.
- Your PC wants to be running Windows 11.
As of precise now, this characteristic is most effective rolling out to those who are within the Windows Insider Program, but is on hand to all Insider Channels.

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As soon as registered for Windows Insider and opted into any Insider Channel, you would additionally enable this characteristic by going to Settings > Bluetooth & gadgets > Mobile Gadgets and selecting Prepare gadgets, then allowing your PC to acquire entry to your Android phone.
After that, you’ll glance a toggle in File Explorer to admire a look at your phone. Must you don’t glance the toggle, the characteristic hasn’t rolled out to you yet.
This article at the origin looked on our sister publication PC för Alla and used to be translated and localized from Swedish.