Phones and laptops have always lived separate lives. Your phone is the first point of interaction for quick ideas, while your laptop is where the real work happens. It's not until recently that ...

Whether you use Android or iOS, you have lots of options to beam data to and from your PC without much effort. We live in a multi-device world. At a minimum, you almost certainly have both a computer ...

It's like iPhone mirroring but for Android. One of Apple's best recent features is iPhone mirroring, which lets you control an iPhone from a Mac. Scrcpy is a free application for Linux, Windows, and ...

Microsoft's Phone Link is a free and handy app that can sync phone calls, messages, and notifications between your smartphone and your Windows PC. The Android version even lets you access photos from ...

Why this is important: A built-in Universal Clipboard would remove one of the most annoying workflow gaps between mobile and PC for Android users. Today, if you copy something on your phone and need ...

Microsoft has a new feature that allows you to copy and paste text from your Android phone’s images, straight from the Phone Link desktop app in Windows. Here’s how to use it. Phone Link can be a ...

Google Backup and Restore allows you to sync your data to your Google account and easily retrieve it on your new device. A PC transfer method allows you to back up your data to a computer and then ...

Learn how to transfer photos from your phone to a hard drive and avoid paying for additional cloud storage while keeping full access to your images.

Irene Okpanachi is a Features writer, covering mobile and PC guides that help you understand your devices. She has five years' experience in the Tech, E-commerce, and Food niches. Particularly, the ...