Home windows 11 customers who hook up their Samsung cellphone with their PC utilizing the Cellphone Hyperlink app are in for a nice shock because of the most recent model of Samsung’s interface for its Android units.
Home windows Newest observed that with the replace to Samsung’s One UI 6.1.1 which is now rolling out to last-gen telephones, together with Galaxy S23 fashions and final yr’s foldables, Cellphone Hyperlink now works extra seamlessly with its mirroring characteristic.
For the uninitiated, the Cellphone Hyperlink app allows customers to attach an Android cellphone to a Home windows 11 (or 10) PC, with the expertise being particularly clean for Samsung Galaxy units, as Cellphone Hyperlink advantages from deeper integration and extra options with Samsung handsets.
Home windows Newest noticed that after updating a Samsung Galaxy S23 to the most recent One UI model, the machine now not requested for permission to begin display screen mirroring. When clicking to begin display screen mirroring within the Cellphone Hyperlink app, it robotically started with out the S23 popping up a request to reflect the display screen.
Whereas this feels like a reasonably minor change, do not forget that beforehand, each time you begin display screen mirroring by way of Cellphone Hyperlink, the Samsung cellphone requests permission. So putting off that’s positively a pleasant comfort, making firing up the display screen mirroring characteristic a one-click expertise.
Driving ahead with Cellphone Hyperlink
Microsoft continues to enhance Cellphone Hyperlink frequently, and one other fascinating change we noticed earlier this yr (in testing) is Microsoft integrating AI into the app. The AI performance offers urged responses to messages within the Cellphone Hyperlink app, and in a lot the identical vein because the automated responses in Gmail, you get a couple of attainable replies to select from.
Moreover, we’ve heard whispers a couple of months again that Cellphone Hyperlink could possibly be made right into a Begin menu ‘Companion,’ which means it’ll be current in a floating panel docked off both facet of the menu. The entire Companion interface change continues to be very a lot in testing, and there’s only a small clue that Cellphone Hyperlink can be a part of this puzzle – if it ever involves fruition. Nonetheless, that may put Cellphone Hyperlink proper on the coronary heart of the Home windows 11 interface (do you have to need it there).
It’s clearly a reasonably large deal for Microsoft, most likely extra so since Apple now has iPhone Mirroring in macOS Sequoia.
