Phone Enable or Disable Mobile Devices in Windows 11

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This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable Android mobile devices you added to manage for your account in Windows 11.

You can link and manage your mobile devices directly from your PC. This link between your Android device and PC provides instant access to your mobile device with just a few simple steps.

You can enable and disable access to any of your added Android mobile devices on your Windows 11 PC as needed.

Starting with Windows 11 build 26100.7309 (24H2) and build 26200.7309 (25H2), you can now directly add and manage your mobile devices from Settings on your Windows PC by navigating to “Mobile Devices” under the Bluetooth & Devices section.

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Contents

  • Option One: Turn On or Off Mobile Device in Settings
  • Option Two: Turn On or Off Mobile Device in Quick Settings




Option One

Turn On or Off Mobile Device in Settings


1 Open Settings (Win+I).

2 Click/tap on Bluetooth & devices on the left side, and click/tap on Mobile devices on the right side. (see screenshot below)


Mobile_Devices_Settings-1.webp

3 Under Mobile devices, turn On (default) or Off any added phone for what you want. (see screenshot below)

Mobile devices you added will not be listed if Allow this PC to access content and capabilities from your mobile devices is turned off.


Mobile_Devices_Settings-2.webp

4 You can now close Settings if you like.




Option Two

Turn On or Off Mobile Device in Quick Settings


This option is only available starting with Windows 11 build 26340.9577 (Experimental 26H2) for Insiders.

If you don't have this option available in the build above yet and would like to try it now, then you can use the vivetool command below to enable this feature.

vivetool.exe /enable /id:62103454


1 Open Quick Settings (Win+A).

2 Click/tap on the Mobile devices button in Quick Settings. (see screenshot below)

Mobile_device_Quick_Settings-1.webp

3 Click/tap on your linked mobile device (ex: "Brink S23+"). (see screenshot below)

Mobile_device_Quick_Settings-2.webp

4 Turn on (default) or off the mobile device (ex: "Brink S23+") for what you want. (see screenshots below)

Mobile_device_Quick_Settings-3.webp
Mobile_device_Quick_Settings-4.webp


That's it,
Shawn Brink


 
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Hi, Shawn. I have everything turned OFF in Mobile Devices in Settings, but I still have this annoying entry in my Startups in Task Manager. Is there a way to eliminate this entry?
P.S.: I don't have that entry on my System 2, just on System1, and I don't have any idea why it's on one and not the other. I don't currently have any Android phones, so it's unlikely that I turned this on somewhere without knowing it.
Thanks, and wishing you a great day,
Dan
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@Brink
Hi, Shawn. I have everything turned OFF in Mobile Devices in Settings, but I still have this annoying entry in my Startups in Task Manager. Is there a way to eliminate this entry?
P.S.: I don't have that entry on my System 2, just on System1, and I don't have any idea why it's on one and not the other. I don't currently have any Android phones, so it's unlikely that I turned this on somewhere without knowing it.
Thanks, and wishing you a great day,
Dan
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Hello Dan, :alien:

I'm not aware of a way to remove it. Just to disable it.
 

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Thank you, sir. It's not going to be a problem. Like many other things I neither need nor want, but can't get rid of, I'll just learn to IGNORE it.
Dan
 

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Hello Dan, :alien:

I'm not aware of a way to remove it. Just to disable it.
Hi brink, how to remove a connected device like this?

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Hi brink, how to remove a connected device like this?

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Hello Adrian, and welcome. :alien:

Once upon a time, there was a "Remove" option for phone devices in "Manage Mobile Devices". Not anymore though.

Currently, all we can do is sign out of the "Link Windows" or "Phone Link" on the phone to no longer have your Microsoft account linked to it. This doesn't always work anymore though.
 

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How do I enable the mobile devices menu? When I go to settings, bluetooth & devices there is no such submenu as "mobile devices". Even if I search the settings for it nothing comes up. How do I enable that? Is there something I need to install? I'm running the latest version of Windows 11
 

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Tutorial updated to add option 2. :alien:
 

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    Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
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    Custom self build
    CPU
    Intel i7-8700K 5 GHz
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    ASUS ROG Maximus XI Formula Z390
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    64 GB (4x16GB) G.SKILL TridentZ RGB DDR4 3600 MHz (F4-3600C18D-32GTZR)
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    ASUS ROG-STRIX-GTX1080TI-O11G-GAMING (11GB GDDR5X)
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    Integrated Digital Audio (S/PDIF)
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    HP Color LaserJet Pro MFP M477fdn,
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