How to See Photos from Android Telephone in Your Phone app on Windows 10 PC

After you link your Android phone to your Windows x PC, you can use the Your Phone app on your PC to see photos from your Android telephone.

Your Phone is an app that runs on your PC. Information technology is preinstalled in Windows 10 October 2018 Update (Version 1809) and it'south available to download in Windows ten Apr 2018 Update (Version 1803).

The Your Phone app merely gets photos that are in the Camera Roll or Screenshots folders on your Android phone. If yous moved or saved your photos to a different binder on your Android phone, they will not appear in the Your Phone app.

The Your Phone app gets your contempo photos from your Android phone over Wi-Fi, only it does non shop your photos online.

The Your Phone app shows up to 2000 photos and screenshots you have taken on your Android phone.

As you take more photos on your Android phone, temporary copies of the older photos are removed from your PC. So if you call up you'll need an older photo later, be certain to re-create it from the Your Phone app before information technology gets replaced past any new photos.

The Your Phone app gets a re-create of your recent photos from your Android telephone and stores the re-create as a temporary file on your PC. If you delete the temporary file on your PC, information technology does not bear upon the original photograph on your phone. If you lot use the Your Phone app to edit the copy of the photo on your PC, information technology does not bear upon the original photo on your phone.

What can I do with photos?

  • The Your Phone app offers several ways to interact with your photos.
  • Selecting a photo will open it using the Windows Photos app. Here y'all�ll exist able to view your photo or edit it as you lot like. If you save your changes, they'll be saved as a new file and your original photo will remain unchanged on your phone.
  • Long-press on a photo (or right-click if using a mouse) to Re-create, Share, or Salve as.
  • Y'all can re-create your photograph and paste information technology into an Role document, an email, your Desktop, but it's not possible to re-create a photo into a text message.
  • To share a photograph, select and hold (or correct-click) the photo, and select Share.

See also:
  • Setting up and using photos in the Your Phone app | Windows Back up
  • Troubleshooting photos in the Your Phone app | Windows Support
  • Your Phone app assistance | Microsoft Support

This tutorial volition show you lot how to see, copy, share, and edit photos from your Android phone in the Your Phone app on your Windows ten PC. Here's How:

ane If you haven't already, you will demand to link your Android telephone to your Windows ten PC.

2 Open the Your Phone app on your Windows 10 PC.

3 Click/tap on the Photos icon on the left side in the Your Telephone app. (see screenshot beneath)

See Photos from Android Phone in Your Phone app on Windows 10 PC-your_phone_photos-1.jpg


four You volition at present see photos from your linked Android telephone in the Your Phone app on your Windows x PC. (see screenshot below)

If needed, yous can click/tap on the Refresh link to update your photos in the Your Phone app.[

Yous will simply be able to delete photos directly on your Android phone, and not from within the Your Telephone app.

See Photos from Android Phone in Your Phone app on Windows 10 PC-your_phone_photos-1b.jpg


five Practice footstep 6 (copy), pace 7 (share), step eight (edit), or pace ix (save) below for what y'all would like to exercise with a photo.

half dozen To Copy a Photo in Your Phone app

A) You can perform one of the post-obit deportment to copy a photograph: (see screenshot below)

  • Right click or press and hold on a photo, and click/tap on Copy.
  • Select a photo and printing the Ctrl+C keys.
  • Drag a photo from the Your Phone app to somewhere else (your desktop, an Office document, an email, etc.).

See Photos from Android Phone in Your Phone app on Windows 10 PC-your_phone_photos-2.jpg

vii To Share a Photo in Your Phone app

A) Right click or press and hold on a photo, and click/tap on Share. (see screenshot below)

See Photos from Android Phone in Your Phone app on Windows 10 PC-your_phone_photos-2.jpg

B) You can now share the photo to who and how you lot desire. (see screenshots below)

See Photos from Android Phone in Your Phone app on Windows 10 PC-your_phone_share-1.jpg See Photos from Android Phone in Your Phone app on Windows 10 PC-your_phone_share-2.jpg

8 To Edit a Photo in Your Phone app

A) Click/tap on a photo you want to edit. (see screenshot below)

See Photos from Android Phone in Your Phone app on Windows 10 PC-your_phone_photos-1c.jpg

B) Click/tap on Open (Ctrl+O) to have it open in your default app (ex: Photos) for Photo viewer.

C) Yous can now edit the photo in your default app (ex: Photos). (see screenshot below)

If you save your changes, they'll be saved as a new file (your original photograph will remain unchanged on your Android phone).

See Photos from Android Phone in Your Phone app on Windows 10 PC-your_phone_edit_in_photos_app.jpg

9 To Salve a Photograph in Your Phone app to Your PC

A) You tin perform ane of the following deportment to save a photo: (run across screenshot below)

  • Right click or press and concord on a photograph, and click/tap on Salvage as.
  • Open up a photo y'all want to salve, and press the Ctrl+S keys.
  • Drag a photo from the Your Phone app to somewhere else (your desktop, an Office document, an email, etc.).

B) In the Save as dialog, select where (ex: Desktop) on your PC you want to save the photo, and click/tap on Save.

x When finished, you can close the Your Phone app if you like.

That's it,
Shawn

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