You can right-click each photo and copy and save it (at full resolution) elsewhere to your hard drive. Photos places a grid of screenshots and photos taken with your phone within the Your Phone app, up to a total of 25. Your Photos constructs a grid of your most recent photos.

(Microsoft hasn’t said that all three conditions must be in place for Photos to work, though I did so in order to test it.) Do something wrong, and Your Phone may think that the two aren’t connected. For one thing, syncing can still be problematic, even with the phone connected via Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, and remaining in an unlocked mode. The Photos component of Your Phone is straightforward, although I ran into a few bugs in my time using it. I’ve found that when Your Phone isn’t syncing properly, Bluetooth’s usually the culprit. If the two aren’t connected, make sure that both your phone and PC are on the same Wi-Fi network, as well as connected via Bluetooth. In fact, the mobile Your Phone Connection app really offers nothing as far as the actual Your Phone functionality is concerned, at least for the moment-it merely establishes your phone and your PC are linked, and offers suggestions for additional apps. The Your Phone app Settings are extremely basic, though you can toggle functionality like Photos on or off. Yes, this is horribly confusing-which is why we’re focusing only on the Android app. But there is a Photos Companion app for iOS, authored by Microsoft, that allows you to send photos from your iPhone to Windows.

Note, too, that the Your Phone Companion app is different from the apparently defunct Phone Companion app that originally launched with Windows 10. My colleague Brad Chacos said that Your Phone reported that Apple’s iOS could only send webpage URLs from the phone to Windows. Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be a Your Phone Companion app for iOS.

Using laptop as a phone