ASCII.jp Coordination function between PC and smartphones in Windows RS5

Windows 10 RS5 will soon be provided by the RS5 app named "Synchronized Phone"

The smartphone synchronization app that can be used with Windows 10 RS5 allows you to access the linked smartphone side image file and SMS.

The Windows Insider Preview of the next Feature Update, "OCTOBER 2018 Update", seems to have settled down.After Build 17763 was distributed on September 18, distribution on the SLOW ring began on the 20th.It's almost October, but the next build is not distributed.

Since the addition of new functions from Build 17735 on August 10, the improvement point was only the standard attached application, and the watermark at the bottom right of the desktop was no longer displayed on August 31st Build 17751.

By the way, this RS5 includes an app with a strange name called "Synchronous Phone".In the English version, "Your Phone" does not know how this name will be, but by using this app, you can access the mobile phone image file or SMS (Short Message Service) linked to the setting app from your PC.It will be.This time, we will try to organize the linkage functions of Windows 10 and smartphones.

The link function of the smartphone and Windows 10 initially began in cooperation between Cortana and smartphones.The English version has already distributed Cortana for Android, and using this will teach you on smartphones and battery remaining warnings in Windows 10 Cortana.Later, the linking function with the smartphone became a formal Windows 10 function in RS2, and a "telephone" category was added to the setting app.

In the RS3 preview Build 16291, Windows 10 Cortana and smartphone -side Cortana app work together to display news articles browsed on smartphones on the PC side and continue browsing.

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This feature has been developed in a series of Windows Timeline, which was announced at Build2017 in May 2017 and implemented in RS4 (APRIL 2018 Update).As of May 2017, demonstrations were being conducted on the smartphone side using cortana, but it was not good to spread cortana on smartphones, and many languages, such as Japanese, were not supported.rice field.

As of May 2017, functions such as Cloud Powered Clipboard, OneDrive On Demand, etc. were announced in connection with Timeline, but RS4 did not implement Cloud Powered Clipboard and was installed on RS5.

In this way, the collaboration between Windows 10 and smartphones has been progressing all the time, but it doesn't feel like making a plan while making it rather than a planned plan.For the time being, the linkage function of Windows 10 and smartphones at the time of RS5 is released,

・ Synchronous phone application ・ Microsoft Edge ・ OneDrive ・ Windows Timeline ・ Cloud Clipboard

There is.

The "Smartphone Synchronization" app is a function to access the smartphone -side image file (camera roll and screen capture) and SMS function in cooperation with the "smartphone synchronous management app" installed on the Android smartphone.The "smartphone synchronous management app" is called "YOUR PHONE COMPANION" in the English version, and is named "Your Phone App" on the PC side.

この「スマホ同期管理アプリ」は、以前は「Microsoft App」という名称で、スマートフォン向けにマイクロソフトのアプリを紹介するソフトウェアだった。このため、今でもAndroid向けのMicrosoftアプリを紹介する機能There is.

To use a smartphone synchronization app, you need to install a "smartphone synchronous management app" on the smartphone side.

Until recently, the "smartphone synchronous management app" was an app that introduced MS Android apps under the name "Microsoft App".

The URL sent by SMS when the smartphone was registered in RS4 "Settings" → "Telephone" displayed the Microsoft App in the Play Store.

I touched it roughly, but only recent image files can be handled by PC "synchronous telephone".According to Microsoft, the last 25 images files are copied to a PC, so if you take a camera or use the captured screen on a PC, transfer with Bluetooth or use Internet storage services.It will be convenient.However, sometimes I couldn't connect to my smartphone.

SMS can also display messages for the past 30 days and send from a PC.However, in Japan, SMS may not be used much because it is rarely used other than user authentication by service phone number.It is not supported by " + message" (RCS).

If you use the smartphone synchronization app, you can use the SMS function of the smartphone from the PC.

It also supports transmission and receiving between PC and smartphone on URL and clipboard, but there are also policy blur in the applications used.

Microsoft has published an Edge browser app on Android and iOS, and when it is installed, it can work with the PC side Edge.

Android version (left) and iOS version (right) Edge.There is a slightly different part from the PC version, such as a toolbar at the bottom.

The browser on the smartphone side has the function of transferring the page URL on the PC side to open the web page automatically, and it is possible to read the more on the PC.

The smartphone version Edge has a function to open the open page on the specified PC side, and send notifications including URLs to all PCs that use the same Microsoft account.

This function was released in advance as an "continuation of PC" application for iOS, but it seems that the function between Edge (on the PC side, the page opens with Edge regardless of the default application settings).It seems to have been implemented.However, the page viewed on the smartphone Edge is displayed as a Timeline activity on the PC side.It is possible to resume the web page that was opened on your smartphone from here.

In the Office, the file on the OneDrive is displayed in the file history of Mobile Office on smartphones and PC Office.Like the web browsing history, it is registered as an activity in the PC Timeline.

If you edit a file on oneDrive in an Office app such as Office Mobile, the history will be displayed on both smartphones / PCs.As a result, it is possible to continue / view editing work.

However, at the moment, the smartphone does not have a function to display Timeline itself, so the only way to continue the PC -side activity on the smartphone side is to use Edge or Mobile Office and use the history in that app.That's it.

Also, during the RS4 preview, when smartphones and Windows 10 were linned, Android had installed "Microsoft Launcher".Microsoft Launcher is a Launcher application that displays the Android home screen.At one point, this Microsft Launcher had a function to display past activities, but it doesn't seem to be used now.

The "Cloud Powered Clipboard" was announced in Build 2017 on Android, using an app called Swiftkey.Swiftkey is an Android keyboard app.In the preview version of RS5, there is a function to send the URL to open Swiftkey ("Settings" → "System" → "Clipboard" → "Get an app for synchronizing clipboards to the phone").However, there is no function to access the cloud clipboard on the Swiftkey app so far.

昨年のBuild 2017での発表からみると、スマートフォン側の実装は大きく変化してきているようだ。コルタナやMicrosoft Launcherの提供はまだ続いているものの、主要なラインからは外れてしまった感There is.スマートフォンユーザーには受け入れられなかったため、方針が変更されたのかもしれない。