Send a browser tab from Chrome or Edge to your phone

At a glance

• Send to device in the right-click menu for pages, links, images and selected text.
• Alt+Shift+S sends the current tab to the device you used last.
• Selected text goes to the device’s clipboard; pages, links and images open there.
• The extension talks only to the app on your computer and makes no network requests itself.
• Chrome and Edge 116 or later.

Step by step

1. 1

   Get the extension

   The Chrome Web Store and Edge Add-ons listings are still in review. Until they are published, testers get the extension by email; Use the Chrome and Edge extension explains how to join.

2. 2

   Connect it to the app

   Run install-windows.ps1 from the tester package to install the browser connection helper, then restart the browser. The desktop app must be running.

3. 3

   Send a tab

   Right-click the page › Send to device, or open the toolbar popup and choose Send this tab.

4. 4

   Continue on the phone

   In the popup, Continue on <device> hands over the current page so you can keep reading on the phone.

What it does and doesn’t do

• It works only with devices you have already paired in the app.
• It never sends files. For a file, use the app, or a one-time link for someone without the app.
• Change the shortcut at chrome://extensions/shortcuts.

Questions