- Windows 11 24h2 introduced a lateral starting menu panel for Android users
- This same panel is now in tests for iPhone owners
- A couple of other capabilities are being added, including a button to quickly and conveniently send the files from your PC to your phone.
Windows 11 users with an iPhone who were jealous of the additional integration of Android in the start menu, without a doubt, will be pleased to see that Apple smartphones are receiving a very similar treatment.
If you remember, Android phone owners obtained this benefit by courtesy of the Windows 11 24h2 update, which introduced a floating side panel right next to the start menu. This contains details about the battery level of the mobile, along with the functionality, such as the ability to listen to voice messages, see photos and continue with recent activities.
It is a large amount of additional skills screwed in the start menu, and now Microsoft is giving iPhone users the same, although in testing tests.
Microsoft Notes in a blog post: “This perfect integration allows iPhone users messages and calls, and monitor the latest activities, all conveniently integrated in the start menu. “
In addition to this, there is another new feature at the bottom of this side panel, a convenient button to ‘send files’ instantly from its PC to an Android or iPhone device.
Finally, Microsoft has also done so, so those who do not have the panel on the side of the starting menu in operation are still presented with a rapid configuration process.
Analysis: A fair bet for a rapid (relatively) release
This is to start with Windows Insiders (testers), initially those of beta or development channels. It is worth noting that this starting menu function, both for Android and iPhone users, is based on the telephone link application (and Bluetooth Le). Therefore, you will need a recent version of the telephone link installed to use it (V1.24121.30.0 or better).
Not all the features that are introduced into the previous view compilations make the cut for its launch, but with this functionality, I cannot see that Microsoft would abandon it. That would hardly seem right in iPhone users, after all, and there are many of them (even if the number still pales compared to those of Android devices worldwide).
I would expect this to continue through the tests relatively quickly, then, it is introduced into the closest term, assuming that everything goes well in the constructions of prior view, that is.
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