Beta Channel builds

What's being tested 1 new · 1 fix

• New BitLocker: Standard users on managed devices can set a BitLocker preboot PIN themselves after a notification.
• Fix Remote desktop: Remote Desktop connections that might fail on the client because of a certificate mismatch are fixed.

What's being tested 3 new · 3 improved · 1 fix

• New Windows Search: Windows Search gets a faster, simpler design and inline actions for tasks like turning on Bluetooth or arranging windows.
• New Magnifier: You can lock a screen's magnified view in place while you move your pointer to another screen.
• New Magnifier: A new contrast theme reduces glare without changing the colors in photos, videos, or charts.

What's being tested 4 new · 6 improved

• New Windows Search: Windows Search gets a faster, simpler design with actions to change settings, mute your device, or arrange windows.
• New Gaming: Quick settings are coming to the Gaming Task View navigation bar in XBOX mode, so you can use them without leaving that mode.
• New Windows Hello: Windows Hello can brighten the screen during face recognition in a dark or dim room.

What's being tested 3 new · 4 improved

• New Search: A new setting lets you choose whether web and Store suggestions appear with local results.
• New Cloud rebuild: Cloud rebuild can erase a PC's drives before reinstalling Windows. This option is irreversible; use it before recycling, returning, or...
• New Cloud rebuild: IT admins can set up and start a Cloud rebuild remotely.

What's being tested 2 new · 4 improved · 1 fix

• New Manage camera, microphone, and location access for desktop apps: You can set camera, microphone, and location access for each desktop app. Some apps may appear under unexpected names or as Unsigned, s...
• New Magnifier: A new setting lets you turn the Magnifier keyboard shortcut on or off.
• Improved Security: The security key PIN screen no longer shows the “other user” icon.

What's being tested 1 new

• New Unicode: Windows can display and shape newly encoded characters and scripts.

What's being tested 2 new · 1 improved

• New File Explorer context menu: The updated context menu has less clutter, keeps commonly used actions easy to reach, and lets you choose what appears in the menu.
• New File Explorer context menu: A first-time teaching tip can show you how to customize the context menu.
• Improved Settings: The Settings home page should load faster in certain scenarios.

What's being tested 1 improved · 1 fix

• Improved Family Safety: Messages are clearer when age-restricted parental controls block applications.
• Fix Some apps and games no longer crash because of the issue that affected them recently.

What's being tested 3 new · 4 improved · 1 fix

• New Magnifier: Each display can have its own zoom level, and the magnified view stays within that display.
• New Magnifier: You can lock a display's magnified view in place while continuing to interact with that screen.
• New Settings - Home: The Device Info Card is expanding to additional markets globally. The notes also mention its preview on Settings Home for IT-managed PC...

What's being tested

• Note A small set of general improvements and fixes is gradually rolling out to improve the overall experience on PCs running this build.

What's being tested 1 new · 1 improved · 1 fix

• New Recovery: Cloud rebuild reinstalls Windows to a clean state, even when Windows will not boot.
• Improved Widgets: Weather is the primary lock-screen widget, with less recommended content and more control over which widgets appear.
• Fix Some apps and games no longer crash because of an issue with msmpeg2ac3dec.dll.

What's being tested 1 new · 5 improved · 2 fixes

• New Windows Recovery: Cloud rebuild reinstalls Windows 11 to a clean, known-good state, even if Windows will not boot. It downloads the Windows image and dev...
• Improved Windows Magnifier: You can type an exact zoom percentage in the Magnifier toolbar.
• Improved Windows Magnifier: The Settings dropdown includes preset zoom steps from 5% to 400% for quick selection.

What's being tested 2 improved

• Improved Unicode: Windows can display and shape newly encoded characters and scripts, including characters from four newly encoded scripts.
• Improved Settings: The Settings home page loads faster in certain scenarios.
• Removed Cloud recovery: The cloud recovery entry point is removed.

What's being tested 1 fix

• Fix Hyper-V: In some applications that use managed virtual machines, shared Windows folders now appear in the Linux guest and can be opened.

What's being tested 4 new · 1 improved · 1 fix

• New Pointer Indicator: Pointer Indicator helps people with low vision locate and use the cursor.
• New Phone Link: Hovering over a recent message or notification in Start shows a preview of its content.
• New Magnifier: A contrast theme toggle provides a darker interface without changing the colors of photos, videos, or charts.

What's being tested 1 improved · 2 fixes

• Improved Live Captions: A new setting controls whether Live Captions transcribes screen reader audio. It is off by default, keeping captions focused on microph...
• Fix Hyper-V: Folders shared from Windows appear and can be accessed in affected Linux virtual machines again.
• Fix File History backups no longer unexpectedly fail with a “No usable drives found” error.

What's being tested 2 new

• New Settings: You can navigate the Bluetooth quick settings page with a gamepad.
• New Windows Share: You can pin your favorite apps in the Windows share window.

What's being tested 4 improved · 2 fixes

• Improved Windows Spotlight: Windows Spotlight on the lock screen gets changes intended to make it more reliable.
• Improved Cross-device resume: If the browser used on your phone isn't installed on your PC, the Resume card can open the webpage in your PC's default browser or offe...
• Improved Settings: The Temporary files page gets small visual adjustments.

What's being tested 1 fix

• Fix Input: Zoom works again in certain apps when you use a touchpad.

What's being tested 5 new · 15 improved · 4 fixes

• New Personalization: You can use DIB image files as desktop backgrounds.
• New Windows Recovery: Windows Recovery can automatically connect using eligible Wi-Fi profiles saved in Windows, including supported certificate-based networ...
• New Camera Roll Backup: Settings adds entry points to set up automatic backups of photos and videos from a mobile device to OneDrive.

What's being tested 3 new · 12 improved · 1 fix

• New Personalization: You can use DIB image files as desktop backgrounds.
• New Windows Recovery: During recovery workflows, Windows can use eligible Wi-Fi profiles already saved on the PC to get online automatically.
• New Emoji: Emoji 17.0 adds new emoji, including a distorted face, fight cloud, and hairy creature.

What's being tested 2 new · 1 improved

• New Accessibility: Windows automatically maximizes app windows as they open, so you do not have to maximize each one yourself.
• New Microsoft Store: Packaged WinUI 3 apps that need elevated permissions can offer in-app purchases through Microsoft's integrated commerce platform.
• Improved Lock screen widgets: Weather becomes the primary lock screen widget, with fewer recommended widgets and more control over which widgets appear.

What's being tested 2 fixes

• Fix Settings: Settings no longer crashes when you interact with System > Notifications.
• Fix Accessibility: Magnifier launches for some Insiders affected by an issue in the previous flight.
• Removed Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line (WMIC): The WMIC command-line tool is removed from this build.

What's being tested 6 improved · 3 fixes

• Improved File Explorer: File Explorer Home opens faster and feels more responsive.
• Improved File Explorer: You can scroll through the Recommended files carousel on Home using touch.
• Improved Search: The search box is 4 pixels taller.

What's being tested 4 new · 2 improved · 2 fixes

• New Windows Update: You can extend update pauses as many times as you need.
• New Touchpad: Precision touchpads gain automatic scrolling, gesture speed controls, accelerated scrolling, and optional single-finger scrolling.
• New Taskbar: You can move the taskbar to the bottom, top, left, or right of the screen.