Two products that will be released in the near future are grayed out and labeled “coming soon.” These are the Cortana personal assistant for Android and iOS, and the ability to stream songs stored in OneDrive.ĭuring the Phone Companion photo syncing process, the app checks if you are signed in to a Microsoft account of some kind (Hotmail,, etc.).

Office Mobile: Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

OneDrive’s automatic photo backup from mobile devices.

The Phone Companion app is, for the most part, simply a tool that identifies Microsoft’s mobile apps and helps you install and configure this apps and services. This app, it seems to me, reflects the “new Microsoft” that embraces the non-Microsoft mobile platforms dominating the market - Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS - in addition to Microsoft's own Windows Phone. It is installed along with Windows 10 by default.

The new icon will soon be available for the PC.If you upgraded to Windows 10, you can finally test out the Windows 10 Phone Companion app (Opens in a new window) that Microsoft announced back in March.

If you want to check out the mobile data sync, you can grab the latest version of the Your Phone Companion app from the Google Play Store now.Īlong with this update, Microsoft also updated the icon of the Your Phone Companion app for Android to make it inline with the Office icons. To have this feature, you need to have the mobile app version 3.4.8 or higher and then enable this capability by navigating to Settings | Sync over mobile data. No need to have your phone connected to WiFi anymore. Roberto Bojorquez, the Lead Program Manager at Microsoft, on his twitter handle announced the roll out of a new capability to the Your Phone Companion app for Android, which will now allow you to sync over mobile data for messaging, photos and notifications. Though this capability is disabled by default to save your data charges, but when you need it, you can navigate to app settings to make it enabled. Prior to that, you need to have your phone connected to WiFi for your content to show up on your PC.

Microsoft rolled out a new update to its Your Phone Companion app for Android, that's now allows you to sync over mobile data.

Your phone companion