{"id":168060,"date":"2025-08-23T02:35:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T02:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/168060\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T02:35:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T02:35:09","slug":"microsoft-tests-letting-you-resume-android-apps-on-windows-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/168060\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft tests letting you resume Android apps on Windows 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Microsoft is <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.windows.com\/windows-insider\/2025\/08\/22\/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-26200-5761-dev-channel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">testing a new Windows 11 feature<\/a> that will let you resume using your Android apps right on your PC. The capability is gradually rolling out to Windows Insiders in the Dev and Beta Channels, and only supports the Spotify app for now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">If you\u2019re in the test, you can try out the feature by linking your Android phone to your PC, and then opening up a song on Spotify\u2019s mobile app. From there, Windows 11 will display a \u201cResume from your phone\u201d notification alongside the Spotify icon and a prompt to \u201cContinue on this PC.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Once you select the notification, your PC will open Spotify\u2019s desktop app \u2014 or prompt you to install it if you haven\u2019t yet \u2014 and continue to play the same song from your computer. Microsoft first showcased this feature <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/671454\/microsoft-windows-11-handoff-feature-cross-device-resume\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">during a (now-deleted) Build 2025 demo<\/a>. It sounds pretty similar to <a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/102426\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Handoff on macOS<\/a>, which lets you resume your activity on a Mac, iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch on another device.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Microsoft doesn\u2019t say how it plans to expand this Handoff-like feature in the future, but I could see it becoming helpful if you want to continue an activity that you started on your phone, like reading an article or writing an email, on your computer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Microsoft is testing a new Windows 11 feature that will let you resume using your Android apps right&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":168061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[171,252,50,24929,242,158,67,132,68,794],"class_list":{"0":"post-168060","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-microsoft","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-spotify","12":"tag-tech","13":"tag-technology","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-windows"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115075751894285082","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}