- Windows 11 is obtaining a new cross -device curriculum function
- It’s like Apple’s transfer capacity to use applications on a phone and PC
- In this case, it will connect a Windows 11 PC and an Android phone, with Microsoft showing the function in Build 2025
Here are some good news for Windows 11 users who are jealous of the comfort of Apple’s transfer function that allows you to resume without problems what was last doing in applications when it changes between iOS and Mac devices.
Microsoft has this incoming functionality, which allows a similar way to work on the smartphones of Windows 11 and Android, as evidenced by a 2025 Build session that was loaded to YouTube.
As Windows Central reports, the demonstration of the ‘cross -device curriculum’ in Windows 11 has been removed from the YouTube clip, with Microsoft editing the video to eliminate it.
Fortunately, a well -known filter in X, Phantomofearth, managed to take a screenshot of the eliminated demonstration that can be seen below.
Task Bar Hover Card UI used for the next feature of recommendations of the taskbar + curriculum in the taskbar, with Spotify support, in Windows 11 (taken from a pre -registered compilation session*) pic.twitter.com/c8eutyjtanMay 20, 2025
He showed how the cross -device curriculum works with Spotify, began with a song that is played on an Android smartphone and then moves to a PC with Windows 11.
After having changed to the Windows 11 desktop, the Spotify application is marked with a telephone icon in the taskbar, and when it travels, it offers a curriculum option to continue reproducing the track that the user was listening to on their Android device.
He will resume from the exact place where he left him on his mobile, as expected.
Analysis: Project curriculum
Therefore, Microsoft is apparently working to provide software developers the ability to include this functionality of resumption of cross devices with their applications (for those that make versions of their Android and Windows products, of course). From the information obtained here, it seems that Spotify will use this function, and apparently could also do WhatsApp.
That assumes that this transfer Doppelgar does the cut for Windows 11. Clearly, it is not yet ready to be publicly issued, since Microsoft threw the part of the video that showed the way in which the curriculum of the cross device works. However, it seems a sensible idea to bring this functionality to the Microsoft desktop operating system; In fact, you may wonder why this has not been done before.
That is a good question, especially considering that it is a very useful feature, and one that Apple has provided Mac users for a decade, so Microsoft looks far behind. Although as Windows Central pointed out, the continuity of crossed devices is something that Microsoft has been playing for a long time, since the Roma Project came to light in 2016, although that was a much bigger vision of working on different devices.
An obvious element that needs to improve is the name. I hope that the cross -device curriculum is a position marker for now, since it lacks a good offer in the nose compared to the transfer. Although it can be shortened to resume if the screenshot of the function in action provided in X is something to happen.
Interestingly, some Windows 11 observers with acute eyes have previously marked a cross -device curriculum process that is executed at the bottom of the operating system. Apparently, this is a way of working in OneDrive files on all devices, so it seems that Microsoft’s plan is to expand this basis to cover a range of applications, not only its cloud storage service.
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