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Pinning an Android app to your Windows 11 taskbar or Start menu lets you open it from the desktop without picking up your phone. The feature relies on the Phone…

Phone Link Recent Apps is a feature in Windows 11 version 22H2 and later. It shows icons for the apps you recently used on your phone in the notification area…

Phone Link can run your Android apps on your Windows 11 desktop. It mirrors your phone screen in a window, so you can reply to texts or check social media…

Recent apps in Windows 11 Phone Link let you open and run your smartphone apps on your PC screen without picking up your device. Your Android phone and Windows 11…

Changing your default search engine in Microsoft Edge switches the search provider that handles every query you type into the address bar. Microsoft Edge version 90 or newer lets you…

Local network access in Microsoft Edge is a security setting that controls how websites connect to smart devices on your home network, such as printers and streaming boxes. Added in…

Your Microsoft Edge home page is the website you get when you click the Home button. Many people also expect it to load when the browser opens, but Edge treats…

The “Create Podcast” feature in Microsoft Edge uses AI to turn a webpage into spoken audio. You can listen to long articles, news stories and blog posts instead of reading…

Copilot in Microsoft Edge on Windows 11 creates short, bullet-point summaries of long web pages, so you can get the main points without reading every word. The tool sits in…

Microsoft Edge can share your browsing data, including your most visited websites, with other Windows features on Windows 11 and Windows 10. Windows uses that data to personalize your PC.…

Content Adaptive Brightness Control (CABC) is a Windows 11 feature that changes your screen brightness automatically based on what is on the screen, to save battery life. A dark movie…

Adaptive brightness in Windows 11 changes your screen brightness automatically. It reads the built-in ambient light sensor and matches the display to the light in your room. That keeps the…

Changing your Windows 11 display brightness lets you match the screen to your room or save laptop battery power. It takes about ten seconds, and you can use either the…

Microsoft Family Safety is a free parental control app for Windows 11 and Xbox. It lets you manage screen time, block apps, and stop Microsoft Copilot from running on your…

Microsoft Family Safety is a free tool from Microsoft that lets you block or unblock specific apps on a child’s Windows 10 or 11 PC, Xbox, or Android device. Windows…