Microsoft wants to copy Apple with a delivery -like feature of Windows and Android operating system

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  • Microsoft recently showed a experimental show for a feature called “Cross Device Resue”.
  • This feature allows you to follow the place where you leave in the application when you want to switch from your phone to your computer.
  • Spotify and WhatsApp seem to support this feature.

As you know, Apple has a continuing feature of applications at the reach of “Handoff”. It allows you to start a task on one device and follow up where you can turn it out if you download a different device. Microsoft is working on a similar feature for Windows 11 and Android devices, which you recently displayed in a pilot show.

according to Windows CentralThis feature is called “the resumption of the cross device” and its clarification in a Building 2025 sessions The name “Create Smooth Experiences across the device with Windows for your application.” However, the session has been edited since then to remove this illustration of the video. Fortunately, X (Twitter) former user Fake The feature snapshot was taken before changing the video.

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Before deleting it, this illustration showed a user that benefits from the resumption of the cross device to continue using Spotify on a computer. If Android Phone has a Spotify app, the application will also appear in the taskbar on your computer. The phone icon will sit over the application to indicate that it is currently being used on your phone. By shifting over this symbol, you will see the option to “follow the place where you left”, followed by an arrow. If you choose to switch to Windows, it will be transferred to the same exact place in the application where you are while you are on your phone.

This continuous experience appears to work for media as well. If you listen to a song on Spotify and use Cross Device, you will take the music from the point in the song when you use the feature.

In addition to Spotify, it looks like it WhatsApp You will also support the resumption of the cross device. It is not clear if there are any other applications that currently support experience, but Microsoft leaves the door open to third -party developers to add it to their applications.

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