Microsoft Garage launches Photos Companion app for Android and iOS

Microsoft Garage has taken the wraps off of a new app aimed at syncing your photos from your phone to your PC. Called Photos Companion, the app is available for Android and iOS, and information technology works in concert with the Windows 10 Photos app to wirelessly transfer your photos betwixt devices.

The Microsoft Garage squad backside Photos Companion says that it was originally created to serve the education market place. The team noticed that educators were increasingly incorporating video in their lessons, but would often see problems getting pupil-created content from their phones onto PCs. The goal with Photos Companion was to create a unproblematic app that could wirelessly transfer photos to any Windows 10 PC.

Photos Companion works over Wi-Fi and is adequately simple to gear up. Once you've downloaded and opened the app on Android or iOS, yous'll exist asked to open the Photos app on Windows 10 and select the "From Mobile over Wi-Fi" option from the "Import" carte. You then scan a QR code to gear up the connection between devices, select the photos and videos you want to transfer, and they'll be on their mode.

To make sure the option to import over Wi-Fi is available, y'all'll accept to caput into the Photos app'southward settings and toggle on the selection labeled "Help Microsoft test the mobile import over Wi-Fi feature."

Photos Import

If you're already backing photos up to deject services similar OneDrive, Photos Companion may lose a bit of its luster. Yet, if you don't trust your pictures in the cloud, or just want a quicker style to become them into the Photos app to start doing some editing on whatever PC, Photos Companion looks like it could come up in handy.

If yous want to give the app a shot, yous tin can download it on Android and iOS now. Go on in listen you'll accept to have Photos version 2018.18011.13110.0 or later on installed on your PC.