Synchronize the new Microsoft Edge with Microsoft Edge for Android

After several months of development, the new version of Microsoft Edge based on the Chromium platform and Microsoft's web browser is now more comprehensive than ever on all platforms, including Android.

In fact, if you use Edge on Android, you will be happy to know that thanks to the new version you can synchronize your data with the desktop variant to access your bookmarks, history, open tabs and more. In this guide, we explain how you can do it step by step.

Desktop tabs, history and bookmarks, on your mobile with Edge

The process for turning on sync in Edge is simple. First, of course, you need to make sure you have signed in with a Microsoft account in the desktop version of the browser. And if you don't have it yet, you can download it for Windows or Mac on Microsoft's official site.

Once these requirements are met, the next step is when installing Edge on Android via Google Play and follow these steps:

1. Open Microsoft Edge on Android and tap the menu button at the bottom center
2. Tap "Settings" and look for the "Accounts" section
3. Tap the account you used to log into Edge or log in if you didn't
4. Go to the "Synchronization" section and activate the switch at the top
5. Activate all the data you want to sync

In this way Edge will start syncing and you will be able to access from the mobile version of the browser to all the data that you have decided to activate in the previous process.

It is true that today the Edge sync on Android it is not as advanced as the one offered by Google when using Chrome. However, it is undoubtedly a big step up from the first versions of Edge and we are happy to know that Microsoft finally offers a pretty cool browser on Android and that it is no longer far behind the Google application in number of functions and utilities.