Remote Desktop 8
June 29, 2024
More About Remote Desktop 8
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Features
+ Access remote PCs running Windows Professional or Enterprise and Windows Server
+ Access remote resources published by your IT admin
+ Connect remotely through a Remote Desktop Gateway
+ Rich multi-touch experience supporting Windows gestures
+ Secure connection to your data and applications
+ Simple management of your connections from the Connection Center
+ High-quality video and audio streaming
Permissions
This app requires certain permissions to use features in the app. These are enumerated below.
Optional access
[Storage]: access authority is required to access local drives and documents from the Remote Desktop session when the Redirect local storage feature is enabled.
Latest Version
8.1.82.445
June 29, 2024
Microsoft Corporation
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Android
14,961,241
Free
com.microsoft.rdc.android
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User Reviews
A Google user
6 years ago
App is great! if there was a 4.5 🌟 if give it that. using w Moto g6 and zero problems. connecting to mainly Windows 10 systems and a win 7 vm. bounce around among several different systems and my phone's ui fluidly. responsiveness is fast, graphics are good and things scale and scrunch in expected and orderly ways. app itself is also responsive and well laid out. connections are easy to make.
A Google user
6 years ago
Caution! The latest update of this has broken our Enterprises ability to add the remote app feed. We had to roll back to an older version to maintain functionality... Microsoft...can you please address? Update:. Older version of the this application will not run on newer version of android...so we are dead in the water with our Samsung S4s. Even the March 27th update did not address the resource feed issues. Update 2: Found a version of the Beta that works on newer Android 9 :ver 8.1.63.356
A Google user
5 years ago
TLDR: App is logging into my PC even when not running! So a couple months ago my PC seemed to be rebooting. Sometimes while working I would get a black screen and then a bit later the windows logon appeared. Sometimes I would return to my PC to find it on the logon screen (I never log off). I assumed something inside was overheating/failing. Troubleshooting found nothing wrong. About a week ago I was using this app for a specific purpose and changed the RDP resolution very low (640x480?). Since then I had the same "reboot" happen but now when I log back in, several apps are now resized/adapted for very low resolution (like how I was using it via RDP). This got me to check the RDP logs in system management and sure enough there were a TON of logins from the app to my computer. I don't know why this app (or perhaps some windows cloud server) is logging in to my PC when the app is not running. but it is very alarming.
Phil Ng
4 years ago
Video watching is buggy to say the least, the newer client is certainly better for that. The other Microsoft branded rdp client is version 10! High quality video streaming they allude to in the specifications is generally so buggy you'll get about 2 seconds before it hangs. I'm not rightly sure why anyone would stick with this version.
A Google user
6 years ago
Worked well for two weeks, then it stopped working with my phone data. It gets one star because microsoft has the absolute worst customer service. The forum is virtually pointless and even if you call them, they will hang up on you. Microsoft obviously needs more competition. I'm still looking for an alternative because I can't imagine what businesses go through with them. If this is connected to any money I recommend you avoid microsoft as much as possible. No real support.
A Google user
5 years ago
This app has been awesome for the last few years as I have used it to connect to my office network remotely using a tablet with 4G service. Recently it has been terrible. It freezes about every 2 to 3 minutes, and I have to reconnect to the network each time, and then I can use it for another 2 minutes, then it freezes again. Over and over and over again and again. So frustrating! Can't accomplish anything!
A Google user
6 years ago
Works well, but I have a new phone with highly rounded display corners and thus I can't see the full remote screen (esp the Start menu!). Why can't we choose an option for a resolution SMALLER than our phone screen resolution? The only options are for resolutions that are bigger. And why can't we scale via pinch-to-zoom to smaller than 100% so I can actually see the full screen on my phone?
Yazev
4 years ago
Microsoft is copying Apple, in the sense that you have to have the "right version" of windows 10 to get it to work. I'm not paying extra for a whole second windows copy of Windows just to make it say "Pro" at the end, after already buying this copy I'm using now. It's a marketing gimmick, much like how you have to pay them to be able to watch videos with certain file extensions in their built in media player. But as usual, 3rd party software always saves the day.
A Google user
6 years ago
I've used this for years on my Windows 10 Mobile device (Lumia 950XL), where it works over Continuum - so I don't have to carry a laptop when I travel. I would give this 5 stars if only it worked over Chromecast, so I could do the same thing with my Android phone. PLEASE Microsoft, fix this. I have to keep carrying my old Lumia just so I can do work while on the road. It's stupid.
Josh Gearon
4 years ago
This is pretty handy for remotely managing my desktop pc. Recently I've noticed that the black bar below my keyboard (AOSP A11 Gestural Navigation, GBoard) disappears during a session and I can't tap return or space unless I contact the top of those keys…and it slows me down a bit. But this works way better (more responsive, smoother) than TeamViewer or Splashtop. And it's already part of my W10 Pro deployment. So no extra work is needed to use it. And it works with my existing Live ID. Kudos!
A Google user
5 years ago
I had to use google chrome remote instead. Microsoft, please make more adjustment. I would like to remote desktop without interrupting any audio inputs or outputs on my pc. My pc streams radio reference audio feed and uses twotone detect which both use the sound card and if i use microsoft, it loses the audio connection. Ive tried disabling the remote audio. It still loses audio. Google chrome works perfect.
A Google user
6 years ago
Hello, remote desktop doesn't go into full screen mode. Bug? i.e. Although custom resolution is set to match device resolution, there is black bar on right and button side of the screen. Portrait mode is fine, the problem only occurred in landscape mode. And also this problem only start to appear in the latest version of the app. It hasn't happened before.
A Google user
6 years ago
since i got the S10 plus, the weird scrolling issue and off mouse was bugging me. Found a fix for it tho. it has to do with the camera cut out and how the phone tries to hide it. The fix can be done in two ways. 1: Hide the camera. this will shrink the screen to hide the camera and the app will behave as it did before. 2: Under display - full screen apps - scroll down to this app and change it from auto to full. This will allow the app to behave like normal but with the cutout visible.
A Google user
5 years ago
Can't connect to Win 7 system. Gives error 0x9 (extended) on every attempt. I've verified that the account has access, and RDP clients can connect to this system. Edit: I exchanged a number of e-mails with Microsoft about this, and they were never able to fix it. I haven't tried again after moving to Windows 10, and have uninstalled the app since I keep Remote Desktop disabled these days for better security.
Tim T
4 years ago
The app has a great deal of potential but the right shift bug (which has gone unfixed for years now) is show-stopping. It makes it somewhere between ackward and unusable to type on physical keyboards. You essentially have to train yourself to only use the left shift key. There is another version on the Play Store, also by Microsoft, simply called "Remote Desktop" that has this issue fixed and also does not have the copy-n-paste issue. I'd suggest everyone use that app instead.
Kadah
4 years ago
The most recent update deletes all saved connections and accounts. Only found this out when I got an emergency call and when to use to app to check our system issue only to find all of my saved connections are now gone. MS has taken what would have been less than a 2 minute job and turned it in to a mess. The original iTap app was great with virtually no issues, worth twice what they asked for. Since the MS acquisition, it went downhill fast. It's taken MS years to fix half of what they broke.
A Google user
5 years ago
Absolutely no complaints whatsoever. One of the best apps I've ever dealt with from Microsoft. It would be great if it contained dark theme but that's not really crucial. Thanks a lot to the dev team. Here's a major issue that I've recently discovered: an app drawer can't find this app when using any of these words: rdp, mstsc, remote, desktop. Please fix.
A Google user
5 years ago
Works great! But because I use multiple devices for the same connections and accounts... It would be AWESOME to see some sort of export option of all connections and accounts.. so that I don't have to manually enter them on each device. Update: Getting sick of seeing updates that completely ignore the number ONE requested feature: Backup/Restore/CloudSync Options
A Google user
5 years ago
Works great, free, secure and built-in to Windows 10. Just turned on the remote desktop setting in Windows and was able to use this for everything I needed. Minus one star for being a little quirk regarding using scrollbars on the far left while trying to use the in-app keyboard. The screen seems to cut off the margins when the keyboard is open.
Tirian Wilson
4 years ago
Changing my previous review to a single star. The official Microsoft RDP app used to be the best of the free RDP clients for Android, but there is a critical bug that has remained unfixed for over a year. When using a physical keyboard - USB / Bluetooth / etc - the right shift key sticks. Unless you retrain yourself to only use the left shift key, doing any work is difficult and entering passwords is impossible. If you need a RDP client, then don't use the official Microsoft one, it will just frustrate you and lock your account out.
