A couple of questions about a clean install

Hi,
I'd like to ask a question regarding what happened in my case when installing Windows 10 recently.
When I clean installed using my USB installation media for version 1903 18362.356 a strange thing happened during the Personal settings Setting up stage. Following the Setup sequence, after entering my Microsoft Account details, Windows Hello pin, I then accepted the Activity History/Timeline option. The next screen you usually get after that is where you are offered to Link your Android phone or iPhone to the PC but instead what I got was a quick flickering of the screen and what appeared to be a blank white screen that just flashed and instantly disappeared. So the screen where you get the option to enter your phone number to have an App sent to your phone and Link phone to PC didn't appear. Instead, Setup moved straight on to the next screen that follows in the sequence which is where you choose to use OneDrive or not. There was no problem at all with the OneDrive screen or any of the other screens that always follow on after that where you make your personal choices regarding privacy settings .
Is this anything I should be concerned about? Could the fact that the Link Phone to PC screen was missed out of the setup sequence have corrupted my installation in any way?

I wouldn't worry about it. You can link your phone to your PC at any time by starting the Your Phone app. If everything else is working I would continue on.

Ztruker said:

I wouldn't worry about it. You can link your phone to your PC at any time by starting the Your Phone app. If everything else is working I would continue on.

Have you any idea what might have caused the issue. Do you think it might just have been server problems at Microsofts end? Maybe the Link to Phone option couldn't get a connection so instead of notifying me of that it just moved on to the next screen in the sequence. I was wondering if anyone else had ever had anything similar happen during a Windows installation/Setup? I wonder if it is important that all those setup screens are done during the installation/setup phase or if it is irrelevant really. If any of them fail or are missing during the Windows Setup stage you just sort them out later when installation has finished.
From memory....there is Region, Keyboard, Microsoft Account setup, Activity History/Timeline, Link Phone to PC, Onedrive setup, Cortana, Inking, Speech Recognition, Location, Full or Basic Diagnostics and several others (mostly privacy settings I think). The only one that didn't come up was Link Phone to PC

If it bothers you then do another install. It won't take very long. If the same thing happens again THEN I would be concerned.

Ztruker said:

If it bothers you then do another install. It won't take very long. If the same thing happens again THEN I would be concerned.

I decided to do another clean install. I even downloaded the Media Creation Tool again to rule that out as a possible cause of the issue. It was exactly the same build as I used previously..version 1903 Build 18362.356.
The clean install followed on identically to the clean install I performed before. So, again the screen to Link your Android phone or iPhone to the PC was replaced by the blank white screen/window that just flashed and instantly disappeared. So , once again, the screen where you used to get the option to enter your phone number to have an App sent to your phone and Link phone to PC didn't appear. Apart from that the clean install went perfectly as it did last time.
Like you said, If I did decide to link my phone to my PC at some point I can do it in Settings.
Because the current clean install was identical to the previous clean install, Im wondering if Microsoft have removed the Link the Phone to PC option from the Windows setup procedure in Build 18362.356. It was certainly there in Build 18362.239 though. Either that or it could be Microsoft Server connection problems that is causing the issue

Personally I only use local account, just personal preference.
Now, if you sign in using MS Account then your personal settings from previous installation would be saved in their sever so it will skip this part.

No, I did an install last night of Windows 10 Home X64 and got expected OOBE windows, including phone. I do use a Microsoft Account and do sync data so don't know if that makes a difference or not.

Yes, 1903 build 18362.356 was what I installed. I'm about to do it again because I messed it up (Hyper-V VM) playing around with some other stuff.

I believe the MS servers are spread out around the world, at least US, Euroupe, Asia. Don't know about other locations but most likely.