- Windows 11 is facing the facility to resume a new cross device
- It is like Apple’s handoff capacity to use apps in a phone and PC
- In this case, it will hook a Windows 11 PC and Android phone, in which Microsoft Build shows the feature in 2025.
Here are some good news for Windows 11 users, which irritate Apple’s handoff feature, which lets you start to resume originally what you were doing in apps when switching between iOS and MAC devices.
Microsoft has this functionality inbound, which allows the same way to work in Windows 11 and Android smartphones, as clarified from a session from the build 2025 that was uploaded to YouTube.
As Windows central reportsThe performance of the ‘cross device resume’ in Windows 11 has been removed from the YouTube clip, with Microsoft edited the video to expel it.
Fortunately, the X, the famous leikar on the fantomophieth, managed to grab a screenshot of the removed demo, which you can see below.
Taskbar Hover Card UI, used for upcoming taskbar recommendations, feature + taskbar, resume on w/ spotify support, in Windows 11 (taken from a pre-distalized build session) pic.twitter.com/c8eutyjtanMay 20, 2025
It has been shown how the cross device re -starts how Spotify works, kicking with a song on an Android smartphone, and then goes to Windows 11 PC.
After switching to the Windows 11 desktop, the Spotify app is marked with a phone icon in the taskbar, and when hovering, it offers a re -introduction option to continue the track to continue to play the user that the user was listening to his Android device.
This will resume from the exact location where you will leave on your mobile, as you can expect.
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Therefore, the Microsoft is clearly working on giving software developers the ability to involve the functionality of re -starting this cross device with their apps (for those who make both Android and Windows versions of their products, of course). From the information here, it seems that Spotify will use this feature, and apparently can also be WhatsApp.
It is assuming that this handoff dopelganger cuts for Windows 11 anytime. Apparently, it is not yet publicly ready to broadcast, given that Microsoft dropped the part of the video, showing how to resume cross devices. However, it sounds like a sensible idea to bring this functionality in Microsoft’s desktop OS – in fact, you may be surprised why it has not been done before.
This is a good question, especially given that it is a very useful feature, and a one that Apple has provided to Mac users for a decade, so the microsoft looks far behind the time. However, as Windows Central said, the cross-device continuity is something that Microsoft has been doing for a long time, since the project Rome first came to light in 2016-although it was a very greater vision to work in various devices.
A clear element that needs to be improved is the name. I hope that the cross device resume is a placeholder for now, as it lacks a good deal in snapness compared to the handoff. However, it can be shortened to resume if the screenshot of the feature is anything in the action provided on X.
Interestingly, some curious -eyed Windows 11 watchmen have identified a cross device resume process running in the background of the first operating system. It appears that there is a way to work on Onedrive files in devices, so it seems that the Microsoft plan is to expand this groundwork, which is only for its cloud storage service, to cover several apps.
