- Windows 11 obtains a new cross -device CV function
- It’s like Apple’s transfer capacity to use applications on a phone and PC
- In this case, it will connect a Windows 11 and Android PC phone, with Microsoft displaying the Build 2025 functionality
Here is good news for Windows 11 users who are jealous of the convenience of Apple’s transfer function which allows you to transparently resume what you were doing in applications when you switch between iOS and Mac devices.
Microsoft has this incoming functionality, allowing a similar way to work on Windows 11 and Android smartphones, as evidenced by a 2025 build session which was downloaded from YouTube.
As Windows Central reports, the demonstration of “Cross Device CV” in Windows 11 has been deleted from the Youtube clip, with Microsoft editing the video to delete it.
Fortunately, a well-known leak on X, Phantomofearth, has managed to enter a screenshot of the deleted demo that you can see below.
Ui UI task will use for the next task bar recommendations + CV recommendations on the taskbar, with Spotify support, in Windows 11 (taken from a pre -recorded construction session *) Pic.twitter.com/c8eutyjtanMay 20, 2025
He showed how Cross Device Repume works with Spotify, dismantling with a song playing on an Android smartphone, then going to a Windows 11 PC.
After going to the Windows 11 office, the Spotify application is reported with a phone icon in the taskbar, and when it flew over, it offers a CV option to continue playing the track that the user listened to his Android device.
It will resume from the exact location you stopped on your mobile, as you can expect.
Analysis: CV of the project
Thus, Microsoft apparently works to give software developers the possibility of including this functionality of recovery of crossed devices with their applications (for those who make Android and Windows versions of their products, of course). According to information gleaned here, it seems that Spotify will use this feature, and apparently WhatsApp could also.
This assumes that this transfer base never makes the Windows 11 cut. Obviously, it is not quite ready to be broadcast publicly, since Microsoft drew in the part of the video which showed the way the CROSPEMP CV works. However, this seems to be a reasonable idea to provide this functionality to the Microsoft office operating system – you may wonder why it has never been done before.
This is a good question, especially since it is a very useful feature, and a feature that Apple has provided to Mac users for a decade now, so Microsoft looks very behind time. Although, as Windows Central highlighted, the cross continuity of the devices is something with which Microsoft has been playing for a long time, since the Rome project was revealed in 2016 – although it is a much greater vision of working on different devices.
An obvious element that must be improved is the name. I hope that the CROS DEVICE CV is a space reserved for the moment, because it lacks a lot of snapping compared to the transfer. Although it can be shortened to resume if the screenshot of the functionality in action provided on X is something to pass.
Interestingly, some Windows 11 observers with lively eyes have previously pointed out a process of recovery of the cross-the-level operating system. It is apparently a way to work on oneedrive files on devices, so it seems that Microsoft’s plan is to extend this basic work to cover a range of applications, not just its cloud storage service.
