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While you can drag content between your phone and your PC, not all apps will accept content you want to transfer. If an app doesn’t accept your content, you can try using phone screen to transfer it instead. You can’t drag and drop files between your mobile apps from your PC.

Check the Xbox services, games, and apps for any service outages.

You can link your social media account in one of two ways: Use the Xbox mobile app to scan the QR code. Select the Link option which will launch the Microsoft Edge app on Xbox. You can choose to link your Discord, Reddit, Steam, Twitch, or other social media account.

If it’s not able to connect to a Wi-Fi network, make sure you’ve enabled the mobile data option on your device. On an Android device, go to Settings > Apps, select the app, then toggle the Allow mobile data option to the On position to allow the app to use mobile data for setup.

You can use a voice typing language that's different than the one you've chosen for Windows. Here's how: Search for the language you'd like to install, then select. or install any optional language features you'd like to use. These features, including speech recognition, aren't required for voice typing to work.

If you'd like to use an unlinked device with Phone Link again in the future, you will need to relink such devices again. Describes the required steps on both your PC and your mobile device for removing a device from the Phone Link app.

If you've received a notification in Skype stating Support for this version of Skype is ending soon , please update to the latest version. If you're unable to update, you can also sign in to Skype on a supported device . To update to the latest version :

A Subscribed badge means a Microsoft 365 subscription such as Microsoft 365 Family or Personal is already associated with your account and you can access many of your subscription benefits including installing the desktop apps.