You’ll soon be able to hotspot your phones cellular data with Phone Link on Windows 11

More integration between Samsung and Windows PCs arrives.

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What you need to know

Microsoft has started rolling out anew Windows 11 preview buildfor Insiders in the Dev Channel that brings with it a handful of fixes and improvements, including a new Phone Link feature that lets users connect to their phone’s mobile hotspot directly from the Windows 11 Wi-Fi panel, just like you can between an iPhone and Mac.

The new feature currently only works for Samsung devices running OneUI 4.1.1 or above, though we suspect this will come toSurface Duodevices in the future too. Microsoft has been working to better integrate Android phones with Windows, and it’s features like this that go a long way to making that happen.

Here’s the changelog for today’s preview build, which is build 25231:

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