Everything people ask about connecting a phone to a computer with UseMyPhone.
Yes — completely free. Every tool is unlocked with no watermark and no card. Sign in with Google or email and start in about ten seconds.
No. Both your phone and your computer use their normal web browser. Scanning the QR code just opens a web page — there is nothing to download on either device.
Open usemyphone.com on your computer, sign in, and scan the QR code with your phone’s camera. The two connect in about ten seconds. No cable, no Bluetooth pairing, no setup.
Yes. Any iPhone on iOS 15 or newer (Safari or Chrome) and any Android phone with Chrome. The computer side works in Chrome, Edge, Safari or Firefox on Windows, Mac, Linux and ChromeOS.
No. Video, photos and files travel directly between your phone and your computer, encrypted end to end. Our server only helps the two devices find each other — it never sees your camera, your microphone or your files.
Usually they connect directly on the same network, which is fastest. If they are on different networks — phone on mobile data, say — the connection is relayed automatically and still encrypted.
Deliberately. Your phone always shows when its camera or microphone is being shared, for as long as it is shared. UseMyPhone is never a hidden camera.
The session survives. Unlock the phone or wait for the network to return and everything reconnects by itself — you will not be asked to scan or sign in again.
Today the camera appears on the UseMyPhone page, which covers viewing, recording and document work. Appearing as a webcam inside other apps needs a small desktop helper, which is on the roadmap.
Up to four at the same time in multi-camera mode — different angles of the same scene, switchable from the computer.
No. Both sides run in the browser. Scanning the QR code opens a normal web page on your phone.
Yes — any phone with a modern browser. On iPhone that means Safari or Chrome on iOS 15 or newer.
Yes — completely free. Every tool is unlocked, with no watermark and no card. Just sign in with Google or email.
Yes. Put the live view into fullscreen and every control disappears — just the page on screen.
Yes. Each capture is added to the page tray, and you can download them together.
It helps, but anything that holds the phone above the desk will do. Rotation is one click if the phone is sideways.
Yes. The phone captures at full camera resolution and sends the original file — the live preview is separate.
Nowhere. They travel directly from your phone to your computer, encrypted, and are gone when you close the tab.
Yes. Keep shooting — every photo appears in the gallery, and Download all saves them as one ZIP.
Yes. Any phone and any computer, in either direction, as long as both have a modern browser.
Up to 200 MB per file for free. Larger transfers are a Pro feature.
No. The transfer is peer to peer and encrypted — our server only helps the two devices find each other.
On Android, yes — EAN, UPC, Code 128 and more. On iPhone, Safari can only read QR codes today, so shop barcodes need an Android phone. The page tells you which you have as soon as you connect.
Yes. Every scan is listed with a timestamp and a count, and Save CSV downloads the lot ready to open in Excel or Sheets.
Your choice. By default the same code scanned twice increases a count; switch on “count duplicates” and every scan becomes its own row, which is what stocktaking needs.
No, and it never will. You paste what you want to send and press a button. Nothing on your clipboard is read or transmitted unless you explicitly send it.
Yes. Type or paste on the phone and it lands on the computer, ready to copy.
No. Text travels directly between the two devices and is gone when you close the tab.
A PNG with a transparent background, trimmed to the signature itself, so it drops straight onto a form or contract.
No. They scan the code and sign in their browser. Nothing is installed on their phone.
No. It travels directly from the phone to your computer and exists nowhere else.
Any image you drop on the page, or a PDF page. The marked-up copy saves as a PNG.
No — a finger is enough. If your phone supports a stylus, pressure makes the line thicker.
Yes. Strokes stream to the computer as you draw, so the big screen keeps up with your finger.
One phone is free, forever. Connecting a second and third camera is part of Pro.
No. Any mix of iPhones and Android phones works, including old ones with no SIM as long as they are on your wifi.
Each camera is an ordinary video stream. Two or three are comfortable on any modern laptop.
No. They scan the code and their normal camera opens. Nothing is installed and nobody signs up.
Straight to the gallery on your screen. They are relayed and never written to our disks — when you close the tab they are gone, so download the ones you want.
Yes. Every photo in the gallery has a Hide button, so anything you would rather not show comes off the wall in one click.
Export or print your deck to PDF and open it here — that is the most reliable path, and it works on any computer. For PowerPoint or Google Slides directly, switch on Keyboard mode and keep the slides in a focused browser tab.
Yes, on both screens. It starts when your slides load and resets from either device.
It will not — UseMyPhone holds the screen awake for as long as the remote is open.
Nothing on the phone. On the computer you paste one line into PowerShell that runs a small helper — no installation, no administrator rights, and it stops the moment you close its window.
No website on any operating system is allowed to move your mouse pointer — that restriction is the browser protecting you. The helper is the piece with permission to do it, and it only ever receives movement from your own phone.
Not yet — the helper is Windows-only for now. Every other UseMyPhone tool works on Mac, Windows and Linux.
The helper needs the code shown on your own screen, the touchpad tool has to be open, and you have to approve it on the computer. Closing the tool disconnects it instantly.
Only if you listen on speakers with the phone in the same room. Recording is echo-free; use headphones if you want to monitor live.
Yes. Recording happens on your computer and the file downloads straight there when you stop.
For speech, yes — leave it on. For music or ambience, switch it off so nothing is filtered away.
No, deliberately. The phone shows a clear “camera is being shared” card the whole time it is running. We will not build a covert version.
Yes. Switch on movement watching and your computer takes a snapshot whenever something changes, with three sensitivity levels.
No. It travels directly from the phone to your computer, encrypted. Recordings save to your computer only.
Not yet. Today the camera appears on this page, which covers viewing, recording and document work. Appearing as a webcam device inside other apps needs a small desktop helper, and that is coming — join the list on this page.
No, never. Nothing we produce is watermarked on any plan.
Live video runs at up to 4K where your phone and plan support it, and photos are always captured at your phone’s full resolution.