Microsoft is rebranding its Your Phone app to Phone Link and updating it with a Windows 11 design overhaul. Your Phone launched greater than three years in the past as a key option to hyperlink an Android cellphone to Windows and keep away from choosing up your system to examine calls or notifications. Phone Link is of course a greater description for the app, and it has now been updated to match the Windows 11 design modifications.

Phone Link now locations the notification panel upfront, and the notifications tab is now pinned to the left-hand facet panel. Microsoft has additionally moved the Messages, Photos, Apps, and Calls sections right into a navigation bar that sits on the high of Phone Link. The notifications part has additionally been cleaned as much as make it simpler to see the notifications that matter.

The up to date Phone Link app features a colour palette and design that matches Windows 11, with refreshed controls, illustrations, and iconography. The Your Phone Companion app for Android can also be being rebranded to Link to Windows, and each apps will share the identical icon.

Beyond the modifications in design, Microsoft can also be making Phone Link out there in China because of a partnership with Honor. Phone Link now helps the Honor Magic V, Magic 4 collection, and Magic 3 collection of gadgets. Otherwise, the perfect Phone Link options are nonetheless largely restricted to Samsung handsets and Microsoft’s Surface Duo gadgets.

The newest Phone Link replace is available today, and with the subsequent Windows 11 replace, you’ll additionally have the ability to allow Phone Link simply by scanning a QR code throughout setup.