Galaxy Books will get the ability to resume apps from Samsung phones

You can soon resume apps from your Galaxy phone on your Galaxy Book laptop

You can soon resume Spotify music, edit Microsoft Office documents, and browse tabs from your Galaxy phone to your Galaxy Book laptop.

Microsoft is working to improve the ability to resume apps from Android smartphones on computers running Windows 11. With this feature rolling out to select apps, users will be able to resume supported apps from a Galaxy smartphone or tablet on a Galaxy Book or any other Windows 11 PC.

Last year, Microsoft introduced a cross-device resume feature that allowed Windows 11 users to resume OneDrive sessions from their Android devices. The company is now expanding this capability to third-party apps, starting with Spotify. This allows users to resume Spotify music playback from their Android phone directly on their computer. Users can also resume work on documents through Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.

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This enhanced cross-device app resume feature has been under internal testing at Microsoft since August 2025 and has now begun rolling out to users on the Release Preview version of Windows 11.

The feature is similar to Apple’s Handoff functionality available on iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and watchOS. Google is also reportedly developing a comparable feature that would allow users to resume apps, files, and notifications across Android and ChromeOS devices.

The Windows 11 update also introduces several additional features, including enhanced MIDI 2.0 support, improved voice typing, and expanded language support for the Settings Agent. Newly supported languages include Simplified Chinese, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, and Korean.

The update also adds Windows Hello Enhanced Sign-in Security support for select third-party fingerprint sensors, a feature that was previously limited to preconfigured Secured-core PCs.

Samsung has already added several cross-device improvements between Galaxy phones, tablets, laptops, and wireless earbuds.

You can share your keyboard and mouse between your Galaxy Book laptop and your Galaxy phone or tablet using the Multi Control feature. You can also drag and drop files between those devices.

You can also set your Galaxy Buds to auto-switch between your Galaxy phone and your Galaxy Book, depending on where audio is actively playing. This feature is called Auto Switch.

A Galaxy Book laptop's screen can be expanded on a Galaxy tablet. A Galaxy tablet can also act as a second screen for your Galaxy Book.

Your Galaxy phone's or tablet's files can be viewed wirelessly on a Galaxy Book.

Quick Share lets you share files wireless between your Galaxy phone, tablet, and laptop.

Asif Iqbal Shaik - Senior Editor

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First Samsung device: T100

Asif is a computer engineer turned technology journalist. He has been using Samsung phones since 2004, and his current smartphone is the Galaxy S23 Ultra. He loves headphones, mechanical keyboards, and PC hardware. When not writing about technology, he likes watching crime and science fiction movies and TV shows.

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