Windows 10 news recap: Your Phone app can now control music and audio, free COVID-19 tracking app for Windows 10, and more

Jack Wilkinson

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Welcome back to our Windows 10 news recap, where we go over the top stories of the past week in the world of Microsoft’s flagship operating system.

New PowerToys for Windows 10 update brings auto-update feature and other improvements

PowerToys for Windows 10 has received a new update, that well, improves updating. It can now auto-update. But that’s not all, there’s a bunch of other improvements too, you can read the full changelog here.

PowerToys for Windows 10

Windows 10 Your Phone app will now let you control music and audio from Android apps

The Your Phone app on Windows 10 has been updated to allow it to control music and audio that is coming from Android apps – giving you one less reason to need to pick up your phone whilst at a computer.

Windows 10 Your Phone

Microsoft launches free COVID-19 tracking app for Windows 10 devices

Stepping into the breach, Microsoft has launched its own Coronavirus tracking app for Windows 10. Powered by Bing, it comes with support for 30 languages, offers up Coronavirus news, and more.

COVID-19 tracker app Windows 10

That’s it for this week. We will be back next week with more Windows 10 news.