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How to use your smartphone as a Windows 11 PC webcam

Although it was already possible in the past to use smartphones as a webcam on a Windows PC, this was cumbersome, not very stable, and hardly useful.

Now Windows 11 has been updated to allow Android smartphones to be used as a webcam wirelessly via Bluetooth much more easily and effectively. The Windows Smartphone Link app is used for this purpose. No third-party app or cable

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