Windows 11 tests new feature for resuming Android apps on your PC

Microsoft has released a new test version of Windows 11—version KB5064093, also known as Windows Insider Preview Build 26200.5761. Among the new features is the ability to resume apps from an Android phone directly on the PC. The first app to get support is Spotify.

Here’s how the feature works: when a song or podcast is playing in Spotify on your smartphone, a notification will pop up in your PC’s taskbar. Clicking that notification will move playback to the Spotify app on Windows 11. If the Spotify app isn’t already installed, it’ll automatically be downloaded from the Microsoft Store.

For all of this to work, the same Spotify account must be logged in on both phone and PC, the PC must have access to the phone via Bluetooth and mobile device settings, and the Link to Windows app must be installed on the phone and active in the background.

The feature is currently being tested in both Dev and Beta channels of Windows 11, which means that the feature isn’t visible to everyone right away. It’s still unclear when the feature will be released to the stable version of Windows 11 for all users, or when more apps will implement support to do the same kind of stuff.