How to Turn Off or Disable Phone Link Feature in Windows 11

If you don’t need Phone Link feature and you want to disable the Phone Link feature completely in Windows 11, this article will help you.

Phone Link feature was also known as “Your Phone” and “Your Phone Companion” in past. Microsoft introduced Your Phone tool more than 4 years ago to help Windows users in connecting and managing their smartphones right from their Windows PC. Later Microsoft renamed the tool as “Phone Link” in Windows 11 operating system.

Phone Link tool allows users to sync their Android as well as Apple iPhone with Windows devices. Users can access their photos, text messages, app notifications as well as make and receive calls right from their computer system.

Following article contains detailed review and instructions for using Phone Link feature to connect your Android smartphone or iPhone with Windows 11 PC:

Connect and Pair Your iPhone with Windows 11 PC Using Phone Link

There might be many Windows 11 users who are not going to use Phone Link app in their computer. There might be privacy reasons or users might be using other 3rd party tools to connect their mobile phones with their Windows device.

In such cases, users want to completely turn off or deactivate the built-in Phone Link feature in Windows 11. Many users were requesting Microsoft to provide a built-in option in Settings app to permanently disable Phone Link feature in Windows 11 and finally Microsoft has added a new option to Windows 11 Settings app to control Phone Link feature in recently released Windows 11 Moment 4 Update and Windows 11 2023 Update (version 23H2).

Now Windows 11 users can enable or disable Phone Link feature as per their requirements. Once you disable Phone Link feature, Windows 11 will stop communicating with your mobile devices.

If you also want to prevent or restrict use of Phone Link feature in your Windows 11 device, following steps will help you:

STEP 1: Open Settings app from Start Menu. Alternatively, you can press WIN+I keys together to directly launch Settings app.

STEP 2: Now click on Bluetooth & Devices section present in left-side pane.

STEP 3: In right-side pane, click on Phone Link option.

STEP 4: Now you can enable or disable Phone Link feature by setting the toggle option given next to Phone Link option to ON or OFF.

You can also turn off the “Show me suggestions for using my mobile device with Windows” option to disable tips and notifications from Windows regarding Phone Link feature.

If you want to use group policy or Registry tweak to disable or remove Phone Link feature in Windows, following article will help you:

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