Microsoft's Your Phone app is already pretty powerful. It allows Samsung users to pair their phones to make calls, access their mobile phone screen, and more on their Windows 10 PC.
Now Samsung and Microsoft have expanded this partnership, allowing users to drag and drop files, to share them between their phones, PCs and vice versa.
If you're a Samsung user, you can now drag and drop files between your phone and Windows 10 PC
The drag and drop feature has been implemented as part of the latest update to the Your Phone app, called Your Phone Companion – Link to Windows on Google Play. The caveat here is that it is currently only accessible to Windows Insiders, according to the official support page.
You must also have Link To Windows version 1.5 or higher installed on your Samsung phone or tablet to use this feature.
Now, you must be wondering: can I transfer any type of file? Are there any file size restrictions? Yes, you can move any type of file between your mobile device and a Windows 10 PC. The only restriction is that file size cannot exceed 512 MB. Also, you can only transfer up to 100 files in one go.
Both devices must also be on the same WiFi network for file transfers to work. No, a wired connection is not required, which makes this process really easy. Now that we've covered the basics, here are the steps you need to follow to drag and drop files between your Samsung phone and a Windows PC:
How to drag and drop files between Samsung Phone and Windows PC?
You must have your Samsung phone linked to the Your Phone app on your Windows 10 PC in order to use this feature.
First, access the Your phone application and then access the “Phone screen” option from the sidebar. Your phone screen should now appear on your desktop. If you want to move files from your phone to PC, you can run this from the Files or Gallery app.
On the cloned phone screen, select the files you want to move by long pressing on the file names. All you need to do now is to "drag" the files off the phone screen and "drop" them into a folder of your choice on your PC.
If you want to do the opposite, i.e. move files from your Windows 10 PC to a Samsung device, the process is pretty much the same. Select the files you want to move to your Samsung mobile phone and drag them to the phone screen on your desktop. You should see the "cursor" change to "Copy" when you move it over the phone screen. Now just drop the files and they will be copied to the Downloads folders, according to the support page.
This cool new feature is currently available only for Samsung device users and Windows 10 Insiders. We hope that this feature will reach all users in future updates.