- One UI 6.1.1 removes the need to tap “start now” every time you want to stream an app from your Galaxy device to your Windows PC via Phone Link.
- This became a problem due to a restriction in Android 14 that affected the method that Link to Windows used to stream apps.
- In the latest version of One UI, the Link to Windows Service has changed how it streams apps to your PC to avoid Android 14’s restrictions.
If you have an Android phone and a Windows PC, then one of the best things you can do to make them work better together is to install Link to Windows on your phone. By installing Link to Windows on your Android phone, you can access a number of its functions through the Windows Phone Link app on your PC, including seeing and sending text messages, making phone calls, controlling music playback, and more. Some features in Phone Link, such as app streaming, are only available if Link to Windows is preinstalled on your Android phone, though. Link to Windows is preinstalled on Galaxy phones running Samsung’s One UI software, for example, but after the One UI 6.0 update, streaming apps from Galaxy phones to Windows PCs became kind of annoying. Fortunately, this is no longer the case thanks to a change in One UI 6.1.1.
After the Android 14 update rolled out to users with Android phones that supported app streaming via Link to Windows, people quickly discovered that the update made streaming apps much more annoying.