Microsoft is testing a new Windows 11 feature that can allow you to resume utilizing your Android apps proper in your PC. The potential is regularly rolling out to Home windows Insiders within the Dev and Beta Channels, and solely helps the Spotify app for now.
In case you’re within the take a look at, you’ll be able to check out the characteristic by linking your Android telephone to your PC, after which opening up a track on Spotify’s cellular app. From there, Home windows 11 will show a “Resume out of your telephone” notification alongside the Spotify icon and a immediate to “Proceed on this PC.”
As soon as you choose the notification, your PC will open Spotify’s desktop app — or immediate you to put in it in the event you haven’t but — and proceed to play the identical track out of your pc. Microsoft first showcased this characteristic throughout a (now-deleted) Construct 2025 demo. It sounds fairly much like Handoff on macOS, which helps you to resume your exercise on a Mac, iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch on one other machine.
Microsoft doesn’t say the way it plans to develop this Handoff-like characteristic sooner or later, however I may see it changing into useful if you wish to proceed an exercise that you just began in your telephone, like studying an article or writing an e-mail, in your pc.