- Microsoft is rolling out a Phone Connection setting in Copilot on Windows PC. This setting aims to make the AI assistant more personalized by feeding on your Android phone’s data and allowing you to perform common phone tasks with natural language commands.
- However, many tasks, like sending messages and setting alarms and timers, don’t seem to work as seamlessly as imagined, even though this is not a beta feature.
AI assistants are a dime a dozen these days, and companies are still figuring out the best way to make their AI assistant actually valuable for you beyond generating some emojis. Android flagships have a pseudo-native option in the form of Gemini, and Windows PCs get Copilot. Microsoft wants to be on your phone too, and the latest updates to Copilot and the companion Phone Link and Android-based Link to Windows apps attempt to bring a cross-platform AI digital assistance that lets you take actions on your phone through commands sent on your PC.
Microsoft is working towards rolling out Phone Connection on Windows, which lets Copilot on Windows PC connect to your phone and execute tasks on it through natural language commands, as spotted by Windows Latest. There is a new setting in the Windows Copilot app that says “Phone Connection,” which makes Copilot “more personalized by integrating the rich data stored on your Android, including messages and contacts.”