- Windows 11 24H2 has introduced a starting side panel for Android users
- This same panel is now in testing for iPhone owners
- Some other capacities are under added, including a button to send quickly and conveniently files from your PC to your phone
Windows 11 users with an iPhone that were jealous of the additional Android integration in the Start menu will undoubtedly be happy to see that Apple smartphones get very similar treatment.
If you remember, the owners of Android phones have obtained this advantage with the kind authorization of the Windows 11 24H2 update, which introduced a floating side panel right next to the Start menu. This contains details on the level of the mobile battery, as well as features such as the possibility of listening to voice messages, visualizing photos and continuing recent activities.
This is a whole turn of additional bolted capabilities on the Start menu, and now Microsoft gives the users of the iPhone the same thing, but in testing to start.
Microsoft Note in a blog article: “This transparent integration allows iPhone users to benefit from the same advantages as Android users, including the possibility of visualizing battery status and phone connectivity, capacity Access messages and calls and keep track of the latest activities, all insert in the Start menu. »»
In addition to that, there is another new feature at the bottom of this side panel, a practical button to “send files” instantly from your PC to an Android or iPhone device.
Finally, Microsoft has also done this so that those who have not obtained the lateral panel of the start menu are operational but who are presented to them a quick configuration process.
Analysis: a fair bet for a (relatively) fast version
This is for Windows Insiders (testers) to start with those of beta channels or development initially. It should be noted that this start menu feature, for Android and iPhone users, is based on the telephone link application (and Bluetooth Le). Thus, you will need a recent version of the telephone link installed to use it (V1.24121.30.0 or better).
All the features that are introduced to the preview builds do not cut for the version, but with this feature, I do not see that Microsoft would abandon it. It would hardly seem just about iPhone users, after all, and there are many (even if the number always turns out to those of Android devices in the world).
I expected that this takes place by the test relatively quickly, then, that it is introduced into the closer term, assuming that everything is going well in the versions of preview, that is to say .
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