One of Microsoft’s unexpected success stories on the PC is Phone Link, the way in which you can monitor and use your Android phone while working on your PC. So it’s a shame that Microsoft is fracturing the app when it probably doesn’t need to.

Microsoft is removing the Photos portion of Phone Link and handing it back to File Explorer. Is this a big deal? Yes and no.

Windows Central and Windows Latest noticed the change Friday morning, but it has appeared on my Phone Link app, too: A notification that Phone Link is going away, and that you can now access your phone’s photos via the standard File Explorer application.

Phone Link , once called the Your Phone app on a Windows PC, is now a cohesive experience within Windows for both Android phones and Apple iPhones (well, kind of .) A r

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