How to send a link from your phone to your computer

Chrome on both: Send to your devices

Chrome can send the page you are on to any other device signed into Chrome with the same Google Account, whether that's a Windows PC, a Mac, a Chromebook or a Linux machine. If Chrome is already your browser on both, this is the quickest option.

1. 1On the computer, sign in to Chrome. On the phone, make sure Chrome uses the same Google Account.
2. 2On an Android phone, open the page in Chrome, tap ⋮, then Share, then Send to your devices. On an iPhone, open the page in Chrome and tap Share, then Send to your devices.
3. 3Pick your computer from the list.
4. 4The page opens in Chrome on the computer, or arrives as a notification you click to open it.

If your computer isn't in the list, check that it is signed in to Chrome with the same account and that sync is on in Chrome's settings.

iPhone to Mac: Handoff, AirDrop and Universal Clipboard

Between Apple devices you often don't need to send anything. With Handoff on, and both signed into the same Apple Account, a page open in Safari on the iPhone appears as an icon toward the right end of the Mac's Dock: click it and the same page opens on the Mac. AirDrop works too: tap Share, then AirDrop, and pick the Mac. And with Universal Clipboard, a link copied on the iPhone can be pasted on the Mac a moment later.

Handoff works with Safari, Mail, Notes and many other apps that support it. It needs Wi-Fi and Bluetooth on both devices, and the two within about 30 feet (10 meters).

Android to Windows: Phone Link

On a Samsung Galaxy, and on the other phones Microsoft supports, Phone Link's cross-device copy and paste means a link you copy on the phone can be pasted straight into the PC. Turn it on in Phone Link, under Settings, then Features. Our Android and Windows guide lists the supported phones and covers the options for the rest, such as a Pixel.

Links inside apps, and any phone with any computer

Sending a page only works from a browser. A link in a chat, a social app or an email is easier to copy than to open, and a copy needs something on both devices to carry it. Emailing it to yourself, or pasting it into a note that syncs, always works. If you do this every day, a clipboard app that runs on both turns it into copy on the phone, paste on the computer.

Copy on the phone, paste on the computer, with Clypy

Clypy runs on Android and iPhone, and on Windows, Mac and Linux, and syncs what you save on the phone to your computer with end-to-end encryption. Every link stays in your history, so the one you sent yourself last week is still there to search for.

1. 1Install Clypy on the phone and the computer. On the computer, open Settings, Devices, choose Pair a device, and scan the code with Clypy on the phone.
2. 2On Android, copy the link, then switch to the Clypy keyboard or open Clypy. You can also share a link straight to Clypy from any app's share menu.
3. 3On an iPhone, copy the link and open Clypy, share it to Clypy, or switch to the Clypy keyboard.
4. 4On the computer, press Ctrl + Alt + V on Windows or Linux, or Command + Option + V on a Mac, and the link is at the front of the Paste Strip.

The phone sends the clip as soon as it is saved, and a computer that's on receives it within moments. On Android, sending without Clypy open needs Android 13 or later. Pairing, sync, the phone keyboards and the Paste Strip are part of Clypy Pro.