How to text message from your computer using Your Phone

Microsoft'south Your Phone app allows you lot to sync text letters, phone calls, notifications, and more through your PC. Syncing text messages lets you proceed your smartphone in your pocket and utilize your PC's keyboard to send text letters. To make this piece of work, yous'll need an Android phone. If yous're running certain Samsung Milky way phones, you can also sync RCS letters. All other Android phones can sync, ship, and receive standard SMS messages.

Products used in this guide

Texting from your PC: Your Phone app (Costless at Microsoft Shop)
Connecting through Android: Your Telephone Companion app (Free at Google Play)

How to go the Your Phone Companion app

To utilize Your Phone on your PC, y'all need to download the Your Phone Companion app. Yous can either grab information technology from the Google Play Store or follow the steps below:

Open up the Your Phone app on your PC.
Click the type of phone you lot have (Note: text messaging functionality is just available on Android right now).
Click Continue.
Enter your phone number in the prompt shown on the Your Phone app on your PC.

How to set up the Your Phone Companion app

The side by side set of steps needs to be done on your smartphone. These volition set up the Your Telephone Companion app and grant it the permissions it needs to run correctly.

Open up the text message with the link to the Your Telephone Companion app.
Install the Your Phone Companion app.
Open the Your Phone Companion app.
Inside the app, select Get started.
Sign in to your Microsoft business relationship inside the Your Phone Companion app.

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Select Go along to start the process of giving the app its needed permissions.
Select Permit on the iv permissions it needs (Note: Read through the permissions to make sure you're okay with them).
Select Continue.
Select Allow to terminate optimizing battery usage. This allows the app to run in the groundwork unrestricted.

Some phones will as well show a notification in the notification tray to permit Your Phone to work. If this pops upwards, select Let.

How to enable text messages for the Your Phone app on your PC

Your estimator and your Android smartphone are now connected, so you can start setting upwards specific features. Yous tin can as well set up phone calls, notification syncing, and other functionality at this point, but nosotros'll leap straight into setting up text messages.

Within the Your Telephone app on your PC, select the Messages department on the left.
Within the Your Phone app on your PC, select See Texts.

How to send and receive text messages through the Your Telephone app on your PC

Yous can now send and receive text messages from the Your Telephone app on your PC. Texts you make straight from your smartphone will also sync to the Your Telephone app on your PC now. Sending a text bulletin from the Your Phone app is straightforward.

Tap the chat you desire to send a bulletin in.
Enter your text in the box labeled Send a bulletin.
Tap the arrow or press Enter to ship the message.

The Your Phone app can also send photos, GIFs, and emojis. You can send these past tapping their icons and selecting the content you'd like to send in a message. Be aware that some providers charge extra for sending certain content. These charges will all the same apply since the text messages are existence relayed through your smartphone.

Controlling your telephone

Your Phone Companion

Merging phones and PCs

Your Telephone allows you to sync text messages, photos, and notifications from your telephone to your Windows 10 PC, allowing you lot to keep your smartphone in your pocket.