Xiaomi’s Device Control is a Your Phone-like App to Control Mi Phones from a PC

Aug. 26, 2020

Xiaomi is working on acompanion application for controlling your Mi phone from a PC, similar to Microsoft’sYour Phone integration on Samsung phones. First spotted by Telegram channel miuiknoun, the app is namedXiaomi Device Control. It is currently available on the latestMIUI 12beta forMi 10 Ultra.

With Device Control,you can cast your phone’s screen to a connected PC. Xiaomi calls this feature ‘Screen Combo’ and it establishes the connection through Wi-Fi. Going by the screenshots, you will have toscan a QR code to connect the devices.

Once you connect your Xiaomi phone to the PC, you can easily drag and drop for seamlessly transferring files. There is also an option to open multiple windows to use different applications from the phone at the same time. You can trigger multiple windows by right-clicking on the current screen. The app will even let youedit the files from your phone on your PC.Image: miuiknoun/Telegram

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Subin writes about consumer tech, software, and security. He secretly misses the headphone jack while pretending he’s better off with the wireless freedom.