Microsoft expert Rafael Rivera has drawn attention to a feature on Twitter that, while not a groundbreaking new way of interacting between smartphone and Windows 10 calculator brings with it, but undoubtedly represents a nice visual bonus.
Accordingly, it is now or soon possible to mirror the background of the smartphone on the companion app on the connected computer. The whole thing works on request, if you don’t think your smartphone wallpaper is suitable for appearing on a large screen, you can also ignore it. Alternatively, transparent “acrylic” effects can also be set.
Microsoft Your Phone team is adding ability to sync your phone’s wallpaper with the app’s background, and acrylic effects (via feature flag AcrylicAndBackground)
* ignore the features in the left pane pic.twitter.com/myPHpZ0ubt
– Rafael Rivera (@WithinRafael) January 3, 2020
Currently still an A / B test
This option itself should be found in the settings of your smartphone app, i.e. on the PC. More specifically, the feature is located at the point of personalization. If you don’t find anything there with which you can compare the app background with your smartphone, you shouldn’t be surprised, because the whole thing is still running as an A / B test. When this is ended and how many devices the function was activated is not known.
Microsoft introduced Your Phone and the related functionalities in spring 2018. Initially, the app only offered a few options, but in the end these have been greatly expanded. So you can now display notifications from your smartphone on your Windows 10 PC, since last December you can even make phone calls from your PC.
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