Microsoft's 'Your Phone' will soon let you use your phone as a webcam

Gone are the days when you had to buy a separate webcam or rely on your laptop’s built-in webcam to participate in video calls. There are many third-party apps you can use to use your smartphone as a webcam to get a higher quality camera stream and save money by not buying a webcam. Microsoft is also reportedly working on a solution that would let you use your phone as a webcam.

No, the company has no plans to release an app for this. Instead, the company seems to want to bring webcam functionality directly to the Your Phone app.APK. An APK teardown linked to Windows v1.23102.190.0 from Microsoft reveals that the company is working on a webcam feature. Not only that, the teardown also gives us an idea of ​​what additional features users will get during camera streaming.

Code strings in the APK teardown indicate that "Your Phone" users will be able to apply effects while participating in video calls. Another feature is in the works, called "auto-framing," which is expected to use the front-facing camera and focus on an individual, similar to taking center stage in Facetime.

When available, Android users will be able to install the phone onto their Windows laptops and then use the phone's camera and microphone to participate in video calls. The APK teardown doesn't reveal how the Your Phone app will allow video calling using the phone's camera and microphone on a PC. But for sure, your Android phone should be connected to your PC for the webcam feature to work properly.

However, not all Android users can use the webcam feature in Phone. Android Authority speculates that the ability to use your phone as a webcam may be limited to phones with Phone Link as a system app. If that turns out to be the case, only a handful of Galaxy smartphones and the OnePlus 12, Oppo, and Realme are eligible to use their phones as webcams on PCs.

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