My Windows Phone (previously ''Windows Phone Live'') was a free online companion service for

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mobile devices from

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. The service, released in conjunction with the launch of Windows Phone 7 on October 21, 2010, provides users with a free mobile phone back-up solution by wirelessly synchronizing contacts, calendar appointments, photos, and OneNote notebooks with a various tightly integrated Windows Live services including Outlook.com People and Calendar, and

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. Users can access and manage their information stored on their

devices via a password protected online portal using their

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. My Windows Phone also includes the Find My Phone service which facilitates

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of a lost or stolen phone over the

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or by messages. Similar phone finder services under various names are available for other families of

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s. A similar service for

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devices was available with Microsoft

My Phone My Phone was an online service with a companion mobile client application from Microsoft. The service, which launched on October 6, 2009, provided a free mobile phone back-up solution by wirelessly synchronizing contacts, calendar appointments, ...

, withdrawn in 2011. The service was updated on September 27, 2011 in conjunction with the release of Windows Phone 7.5 "Mango" update, adding support for Microsoft Scrapbook and account management features including viewing app purchase history and reinstall apps from the

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. With the Windows Phone 8 "Apollo" update, Microsoft has increased the age requirement for a separate Microsoft account from 13 to 18 and added the ''My Family'' feature to My Windows Phone, allowing parents to manage their child's accounts (including accounts with a birth date between 13-17 years of age prior to this update) running Windows Phone 8 (which was later incorporated in PCs running Windows 10). In February 2015 Microsoft moved the ''Find My Phone'' feature from the Windows Phone site to the Microsoft account website in preparation for

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My Windows Phone offers the following features:

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