Windows 10: Your phone may soon simplify transfers and copy and paste

The application Your phone is increasingly part of the Android user experience on Windows 10. It already allows you to respond to text messages, make calls, view and download some images and videos and display the smartphone screen on your PC, directly in Windows. In this, Microsoft is inspired by what Apple does between iPhones and macs: the idea is to be able to use the smartphone completely from your PC.

But also to make sure that you can start something on one device and finish it on the other. However, several lines in the latest revisions of the application source code seem to indicate the arrival of new features. There are indeed three new references: SharedContentPhotos, ContentTransferCopyPaste and ContentTransferDragDrop. These lines of code alone do not allow you to find out more.

Simplified copy and paste and sharing

The Windows Central site tried to force activation of these features, without success. Nevertheless their name seems rather revealing. In particular ContentTransferCopyPaste which seems to be related to the clipboard sharing between Windows 10 and Android. If it works like the clipboard of iPhone and Mac, then it should be possible to copy something in Windows and paste it on Android or vice versa.

ContentTransferDragDrop appears to be related to the ability to transfer files to your smartphone by simply dragging them to the Your Phone app. Finally, the reference SharedContentPhotos is more obscure. It could be, for example, a kind of automatic synchronization of photos between the PC and the smartphone. Of course, it is possible to benefit from all these functionalities with third-party applications.

Also read: Windows 10 – how to synchronize your Android smartphone natively with “Your Phone”

But the prospect of being able to have it all in a single system application designed by Microsoft is still more practical.

Source: Android Community

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