- Windows 11 gets a new Cros -Unit CV Function
- It’s like Apple’s handicrafting ability to use apps across a phone and PC
- In this case, it connects a Windows 11 -PC and Android phone where Microsoft shows the feature of Build 2025
Here are some good news for Windows 11 users who are jealous of the convenience of Apple’s Handoff feature that allows you to resume what you last did in apps when switching between iOS and Mac devices.
Microsoft has this functionality in -depth, allowing for a similar way to work across Windows 11 and Android smartphones, as shown in a Session from Build 2025 that was uploaded to YouTube.
As Windows Central reports, the demonstration of ‘Cross Device CV’ in Windows 11 has been removed from YouTube clip, where Microsoft edits the video to remove it.
Fortunately, the well -known leaks on X, Phantomofearth, managed to grab a screenshot of the deleted demo, which you can see below.
Task Line Watching Card UI, used for the upcoming taskbar’s recommendations for assignment lines + resume at TaskBar, W/ Spotify Support, in Windows 11 (taken from a pre-played build-session*) pic.twitter.com/c8eutyjtanMay 20, 2025
It showed how Cross Device CV works with Spotify, starts with a song playing on an Android smartphone, and then moved to a Windows 11 -PC.
After switching to the Windows 11 desktop, the Spotify app is marked with a phone icon on the taskbar and when hovering over, it offers a resume option to continue playing the track that the user listens to on their Android device.
It resumes from the exact place where you left off your mobile as you would expect.
Analysis: Project CV
So Microsoft is apparently working on giving software developers the opportunity to include this intersection of resumption of functionality with their apps (for those who of course make both Android and Windows versions of their products). From the information collected here, it seems that Spotify will use this feature, and apparently WhatsApp may also be.
It is believed that this handoff -doppelganger ever makes the clip to Windows 11. Obviously, it is not quite ready to be sent in public yet, considering Microsoft withdrew the part of the video showing how the intersection of the cross unit works. However, it seems like a sensible idea to bring this functionality to Microsoft’s desktop us – in fact, you may wonder why this has not been done before.
This is a good question, especially considering that it is a very useful feature and one that Apple has delivered to Mac users for a decade now, so Microsoft sees a lot behind the times. Although Windows Central pointed out, continuity across devices is something that Microsoft has been playing with for a long time, ever since the Rome project only emerged in 2016 self-self it was a much greater vision of working across different devices.
An obvious element that needs to be improved is the name. I hope Cross Device CV is a placeholder for now, as it lacks a good deal with snappiness compared to handover. While it may just be shortened to resume if the screen of the feature in action specified on x is something to pass by.
Interestingly, some eager eye-Windows 11-viewers have previously marked a cross device’s resume process that runs on the basis of the operating system. This is apparently a way of working on OneDrive files across devices, so it seems that Microsoft’s plan is to expand this basis for covering a number of apps not just its cloud storage service.
