‘Your Phone’ Android Apps experience starts heading out to everyone

The slow rollout means not everyone will see it arrive right away.

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What you need to know

At Samsung’s latest “Unpacked” event earlier in August, Microsoft announced that it would soon bring anew “Apps” experienceto its Your Phone app on Windows 10. After some testing with Insiders, that experience is now starting to roll out to everyone today. Microsoft announced the rollout in its latestInsider build release notes.

The new Apps experience allows those with a compatible Android phone to open and stream Android apps from their phone in a dedicated window on their PCs. The emphasis is on “compatible” there, as the feature is limited to aselect list of Samsung phonesright now, including the newSamsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra.

Beyond letting you open Android apps in dedicated windows, the update allows you to pin specific Android apps to your taskbar for easy access. In the future, Microsoft said it plans to allow you to open multiple Android apps in separate windows side-by-side.

Microsoft says this is a “gradual rollout,” so it may take some time to become available for everyone. Still, it’s a handy feature to have if you happen to meet all of the requirements.

The Note that does it all

It’s not cheap, but the price is justified by how much you get jammed into this svelte, good looking phone. With all the latest bells-and-whistles, Microsoft integration, gorgeous all-around hardware, and an impressive camera package, Note 20 Ultra is the ultimate smartphone of 2020.

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Dan Thorp-Lancaster is the former Editor-in-Chief of Windows Central. He began working with Windows Central, Android Central, and iMore as a news writer in 2014 and is obsessed with tech of all sorts. You can follow Dan on Twitter@DthorpLand Instagram@heyitsdtl.