Here’s How to Overcome High CPU Consumption in the Phone Link Application

Phone Link or previously known as Your Phone is an application developed by Microsoft for Windows 11/10. Where this application helps users connect their phones to PCs.

However, if you are a loyal user of this application and feel that the YourPhone or Phone Link application consumes more resources than usual, the following guide from WinPoin is expected to help solve the problem you are facing.

1. Stop the process with Task Manager

Stopping the YourPhone or Phone Link application using the Task Manager is a solution that can be said to be quite powerful. When an application starts to eat up your CPU resources, it will make your PC slower which as a result the computer becomes freeze.

To stop the application using the Task Manager, you can follow these steps:

• Press Win+X or Ctrl+Alt+Del simultaneously and then select Task Manager
• If the Task Manager window appears, all you have to do is select Phone Link
• Then just click the End task button

2. Stop Phone Link from running in the background

The Phone Link app runs in the background simultaneously to give you a smoother user experience. Whenever your phone gets close to the computer, it will connect to the PC automatically. However, if it actually consumes your CPU resources excessively, then you can disable it.

• Press Win+I to open Windows Settings.
• Go to Apps > Apps & features
• Select Phone Link and then click the three dots (more) button
• If you have selected Advanced options and expand the list of options
• Then select the option Never

3. Update Phone Link app

If you’re using an older version of the Phone Link app, you may encounter a similar problem. Therefore, to solve this problem you can open Microsoft Store on your computer and check if any updates are available or not. If yes, WinPoin recommends you to download and install the update.

4. Fix or Reset Phone Link

If the methods above do not fix the problem you are facing, then you can use the last method, namely by repairing or resetting the Phone Link application. To do this, you can follow the steps that WinPoin has prepared below:

• Press Win+I to open Windows Settings
• Go to the Apps section and select the Apps & features menu > Phone Link
• If you have clicked the three-dot icon and select the Advanced option
• Click the Stop button to close the application if it is running
• Click the Fix button
• If the problem is not resolved, click the Reset button