[Software] Windows 10 20H1 receives build 18908 with a massive redesign of the app "Your phone"

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Once Windows 1 May 2021 Update is available to everyone, Microsoft is focusing on developing next year's spring update, 20H1, since as it has said, this fall's 19H2 will be more of a Service pack than a feature update.

As a sample, the launch that the firm has just made for its Insiders putting in their hands the new build 18908 for Windows 10 20H1, specifically for the fast ring. Here we can begin to glimpse what will perhaps become one of the most important system updates, among other things due to how soon it has begun to test.

Undoubtedly, one of the great novelties that we are going to find here is the one that refers to the Your phone application, where great changes and improvements have been introduced. In this way, new functions related to the terminal screen, accessibility, language, keyboard layout, or compatibility with more models are being introduced. Thus, the firm has wanted to present two new accessibility functions, a screen reading, in addition to a focus monitoring.

At the same time now we can change the language of the PC keyboard or the design of the Android phone while we are located on the screen of this. With regard to the aforementioned accessibility, to say that users can now enable the service that allows a much more fluid reading between devices. Here, in addition, the Windows 10 Narrator function will come into play at the same time, since it will reproduce from the computer everything that we carry out on the phone screen while we interact using the Windows keyboard or mouse.

Windows 10 20H1

On the other hand, we can also interact with the applications of the Android terminal by monitoring the approach that will perfectly follow what we mark from the keyboard and the input of the mouse pointer. For all this, we will first have to enable the accessibility function of the Your phone app and the TalkBack function, to then activate the Magnifier on the Windows 10 PC.

More improvements coming to Windows 10 20H1 through build 18908
It has also been wanted to speed up the process of changing the language or the keyboard layout in the Your Phone application, changes that will only be applicable when writing on the terminal from the PC. And of course, how could it be otherwise, the list of supported phone models continues to grow, so now the Samsung Galaxy A8 and Galaxy A8 + have been added, a list that will increase.

Changing third, build 18908 for Windows 10 20H1 also integrates new messaging functions, so when sending and receiving MMS messages, we now have the ability to deal with images and animated GIFs, all directly from the Your Phone application. We will also find a new unread message indicator that will be located on the application icon on the PC taskbar. What's more, this app we are talking about will already synchronize the thumbnails of the contacts that contain profile images so that we can easily identify who we are exchanging with by sending messages; all this even using mobile data, so it will no longer be necessary for the smartphone to connect to the WiFi.

Windows 10 20H1

But that is not all that has come to the 18908 of Windows 10, but also several errors related to other aspects of the system have been corrected such as a problem with the night light mode, failures of the Start menu, with lossless coding in WMA files, or with the menu that refers to the equipment's battery.

The Redmond-based firm has also introduced various fixes for the power button or pre-installed applications such as MS Paint that did not work as intended in previous trial versions.