Google is allegedly engaged on an Android device-linking function

Google is reportedly planning to introduce a brand new Android function that may let customers hyperlink their varied Android units collectively, much like Continuity options throughout the Apple ecosystem. Android knowledgeable Mishaal Rahman tweeted in regards to the potential function, noting that it might permit Android units which are signed into the identical Google account to speak with one another. 

This might allow options like “Name Switching,” which permits customers to leap between linked units throughout calls, and “Web Sharing,” which Android Authority speculates may very well be a better strategy to shortly arrange a private hotspot throughout the linked units. Apple has an analogous call-switching function referred to as “iPhone Cellular Calls” that enables customers to make and obtain calls from Apple units like Macs and iPads signed into the identical Apple ID, offering they’re on the identical community because the person’s iPhone.

That is apparently the settings menu that customers will see for the Hyperlink Your Units function as soon as it rolls out. Picture: Mishaal Rahman

Android Authority additionally notes, nevertheless, that Apple’s “iPhone Cellular Calls” function doesn’t permit customers to obtain calls from one other iPhone. The wording for Google’s “Name Switching” function (as seen within the screenshot offered by Rahman) means that it may very well be used to change between totally different Android units, together with telephones. So that you may be capable of decide up a name on a telephone and switch it to a different linked telephone or one thing just like the Pixel Pill. We received’t know for positive till Google formally declares this, but when it’s real then this may very well be helpful for folk who want to hold multiple telephone. 

Rahman claims that the “Hyperlink Your Units” menu will seem underneath Settings > Google > Units & Sharing within the machine settings as soon as the function is formally launched. Google has but to announce the Android machine linking function, not to mention a launch date. We now have reached out for remark from Google and can replace this story ought to we hear again.