Your Phone for Insiders now supports using your PC's pen as an input

Your Phone Companion Android
Your Phone Companion Android (Image credit: Windows Central)

What you need to know

  • Your Phone for Insiders now supports pen input.
  • The pen input supports pressure sensitivity, allowing for more precise drawing and notes.
  • Your Phone now supports keyboard, mouse, touch, and pen inputs.

Pen input works with active pens and supports pressure sensitivity, which gives people more options for drawing and taking notes.

Your Phone is still a relatively new app from Microsoft and continues to gain new capabilities. You can check out our hands-on with Your Phone as well as our hands-on with the phone call relaying feature to see the app in action. The Your Phone app is built into Windows 10 but requires the Your Phone Companion app.

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