Phone Link, previously known as Your Phone, is a Windows app that allows connecting Android or iOS phones to Windows computers.
It enables access and manage various phone features directly from their PC, such as texts, calls, notifications, and photos.
Well, recently, I faced the “This feature has been blocked by your system administrator” error while it has been working fine so far.
As my device is managed by Intune, I first looked at Intune configuration profiles for settings which could be related – such as Allow Phone PC linking, Allow connected devices… and all were good to allow Phone Link.
Then I discovered Phone Link is identified as a Consumer Experience and looked at Allow Windows Consumer Features setting which was turn off.
After turning it on and force a configuration refresh, got the Phone Link app working again.
This can be found by looking at the registry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\PolicyManager\current\device\Experience for the key AllowWindowsConsumerFeatures; if the value is set to 0, then it is being blocked.
It must be set to 1.
NOTE if you use Windows Security Baseline, you need to review the setting set for Windows Consumer Feature as it may conflict with your other policy.