Once you’ve got everything configured as you wish, you can ignore this Android app. As I am not a Windows Insider but can use all of these features, that text appears to be out of date.) (You may see a notice that some of these notifications are only available to Windows Insider members. You can and should edit that last set-just as you would with smartwatch notifications-so you’re not getting interrupted on your computer by trivialities or by redundant updates from Android versions of apps that you already run in Windows. You get four main categories of notifications, any of which you can disable: missed calls, text messages, low-battery alerts, and updates from individual apps.

Tap “sync notifications” on that screen, and you can choose what Android alerts will pop up on your PC after granting this version of Microsoft’s personal assistant access to various types of data on your phone. Open the app, sign into the same Microsoft account you use to sign into your Win 10 PC, tap the menu button at the top left, and then tap “Settings.”

To have your Android phone’s notifications show up in the “Action Center” list of notices and alerts that pops up from the bottom-right corner of the screen, you first need to put down your computer, pick up your phone and install Microsoft’s free Cortana app for Android. (Consider this yet another sign of how little the Microsoft of 2016 has in common with the Microsoft of 1996.) The free upgrade to Microsoft’s operating system that shipped last week includes some nifty features, but the most surprising one benefits mobile devices running another company’s operating system. Now that I’ve installed the “Anniversary Update” to Windows 10, how do I get my Android notifications to show up on my PC as promised?Ī.

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