Microsoft's Your Phone is an app that is designed to make an Android smartphone and a Windows x PC work together. The app helps you lot stay updated on all the latest notifications that you lot're receiving on your smartphones without actually unlocking your Android phone. It too lets you receive and send text messages from your Windows 10 PC. Microsoft recently added Telephone Calls feature to the Your Phone app, thus making information technology possible for the Windows ten users to make as well as receive a phone phone call right from their PC.

In social club for the Your Phone app to assist you stay updated on all the notifications that yous're receiving on your smartphone, the app needs to work in the groundwork for as long as your PC is turned on. And as yous already know, when an app runs in the background, it consumes power. Conspicuously, if you don't accept the app installed on your PC, you can expect a batter battery life.

Alternatively, it's also possible that you desire to use all the features that Your Phone offers simply don't desire the app to always run in the groundwork. If this is the example, yous can follow a few unproblematic and easy steps that will help you end the YourPhone.exe process, which in turn, will disable Your Phone from running in the background.

How to disable YourPhone.exe from running in the background

There is more than one way to stop Your Phone app from running in the groundwork. If you want the easiest style, all you need to practise is end the YourPhone.exe process. To do that, you lot can follow the below steps.

  1. Open up Settings app by pressing Win primal + I button
  2. Click on Privacy
  3. Y'all'll now see a hamburger menu containing a list of options. LocateGroundwork apps, so click on it
  4. Y'all'll now see a toggle that lets you disable all the apps(including Your Phone) from running in the background
  5. But if you want to be more selective and want to disable only the Your Phone app, you can do so by scrolling the page downwardly. And at the bottom of the page, you lot should run into the toggle for disabling Your Phone app from running in the background. Turn off the toggle and it'll disable YourPhone.exe from running in the background.

There is another manner to disable the app from running in the background — and that is by uninstalling YourPhone.exe from your system. If that's what yous want to do, you can follow the below steps.

  1. Practise a correct-click on the Windows Get-go button and selectWindows PowerShell(Admin)
  2. Copy and paste the following control and hit enter
    Get-AppxPackage Microsoft.YourPhone -AllUsers | Remove-AppxPackage
  3. You should no longer see Your Telephone app on your Windows 10 PC

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