Microsoft’s new Your Phone service that helps connect Android phones to Windows has stopped working for users today. “We’ve identified a potential issue within infrastructure responsible for processing service traffic,” Microsoft’s service outage page says. “We’re taking corrective action and we’ll closely monitor the service to ensure recovery.”
This is bad timing for an outage. The Galaxy Note 10 has its own version of Your Phone, called “Link to PC.” That phone just went on sale last week, and Link to PC is reportedly unavailable as part of this outage.
Typically, the app lets you reply to texts, access files and manage phone notifications from your PC. The feature has been in Insider testing since this spring, and Microsoft began rolling it out to PCs in July. The screen mirroring is the most impressive part, as you can fully control a Note 10 from the Your Phone app and launch and run Android apps. Microsoft is expected to bring this same screen mirroring functionality to more handsets in the coming months, but right now it’s exclusive to the Galaxy Note 10.
JoyofAndroid has created an list on the 8 Best Screen Mirroring Android Apps Mirror Cast with MiraCast that goes over each in detail with links to the downloads of each.
