Beta Channel builds

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

• New Resume apps from Android phone: Spotify playback can continue on your PC from where you left off in the Spotify app on your Android phone.
• New Battery icons on the lock screen: The lock screen displays the updated battery icon and percentage.
• New Input: New keyboard shortcuts insert an en dash or em dash while you type.

What's being tested 3 new · 2 improved · 13 fixes

• New Click to Do: You can select multiple items by drawing around them, dragging a rectangle, or holding Ctrl and clicking. The selection can include dif...
• New IT administrators can remove selected pre-installed Microsoft Store apps on Enterprise and Education devices.
• New Snipping Tool: You can record a selected app window without cropping the recording afterward. The recording area stays fixed if the app moves or anoth...

What's being tested 1 new · 10 improved · 13 fixes

• New Start menu: The mobile device companion has a redesigned layout and lets you scroll through recent activity and access messages, calls, photos, and...
• Improved Settings: You can add additional clocks in Settings. They appear in Notification Center and in the taskbar clock tooltip.
• Improved Settings: You can change the time server in Settings.

What's being tested 1 new · 4 fixes

• New File Explorer: File Explorer shows people icons for work or school accounts. Hovering over or clicking an icon opens that person’s Microsoft 365 card.
• Fix Start menu: The Start menu no longer crashes for some Insiders.
• Fix Taskbar & System Tray: Clicking a taskbar preview works again after you accidentally press and slide the mouse on it.

What's being tested 3 new · 5 improved · 14 fixes

• New Settings: On AMD- and Intel-powered Copilot+ PCs, you can describe a problem and get suggested steps for changing settings. The feature requires...
• New Click to Do (Preview): A first-launch interactive tutorial shows how to summarize text and remove an image background. You can start it again from the menu.
• New Search on the Taskbar: Image search results in the taskbar search box can appear in a grid, making it easier to identify an image.

What's being tested 3 new · 3 improved · 2 fixes

• New Click to Do: Click to Do adds an action that creates detailed descriptions of images, charts, and graphs on AMD- and Intel-powered Copilot+ PCs. The...
• New Narrator: Narrator can read detailed descriptions of images, including people, objects, colors, text, and numbers, on AMD- and Intel-powered Copi...
• New Settings: The Text and image generation page is now visible in Settings, but its app-activity and permission-control functionality is not availab...

What's being tested 2 new · 2 improved · 13 fixes

• New Click to Do: A new action describes images, charts, and graphs. The models are set up the first time you use it, and descriptions are generated loca...
• New Administrator protection: Administrator protection is an upcoming feature that lets administrator users perform admin tasks with just-in-time privileges. It is o...
• Improved Privacy dialogs: When an app asks to use location, the camera, or the microphone, its permission dialog appears centered and takes focus while the scree...

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

• New Passwordless Improvements: You can use passkeys from a third-party credential manager such as 1Password Beta, or save new passkeys to it, and verify with Windows...
• Improved Voice access: Japanese support in Voice access is temporarily disabled while bugs are addressed.
• Improved Settings: In the EEA, the new default browser is pinned to the taskbar and Start menu unless you clear the checkboxes in the default-apps setup.

What's being tested 2 new · 3 improved · 8 fixes

• New Recall Homepage: Recall's new homepage shows recent snapshots and the three apps and websites you used most in the past 24 hours, so you can return to e...
• New Hardware indicators: You can move the brightness, volume, airplane mode, and virtual desktop indicators to the bottom, top left, or top center of the screen...
• Improved Start menu: Admins can apply Start menu pins once, so users can then change their pinned layout.

What's being tested 5 new · 8 improved · 8 fixes

• New Recall: Insiders in the EEA can export Recall snapshots to share with third-party apps and websites. The export code appears once during setup;...
• New Notification Center: A setting lets you show a larger clock with seconds above the date and calendar.
• New Recall: Recall now offers tips that explain features and guide you through using them.

What's being tested 5 new · 4 improved · 12 fixes

• New Start menu: The redesigned Start menu puts All at the top level and adds category and grid views for installed apps. It remembers the last view you...
• New Start menu: The Start menu adjusts its size and sections to your screen and the number of pinned apps and recommendations. Settings let you keep th...
• New Start menu: A new mobile-device button next to Search lets you expand or collapse mobile-device content.

What's being tested 2 new · 7 improved · 11 fixes

• New Quick machine recovery: A new page in Settings lets you check whether Quick machine recovery is enabled, set it to search automatically for remediations, choos...
• New Settings: Settings Home gets a Device Card with a snapshot of key PC specs and usage, plus a link to Settings > About for more information.
• Improved Click to Do: Rewrite and its options, including Refine, are rolling out again for PCs set to French or Spanish as their primary language.

What's being tested 4 new · 2 improved · 5 fixes

• New Click to Do: A new action sends recognized text to Word to start a draft with Copilot.
• New Lock screen widgets: You can add, remove, and rearrange supported small widgets on the lock screen.
• New Widgets: The Widgets board supports multiple dashboards, so you can switch between your widgets and other boards such as My feed.

What's being tested 2 new · 11 improved · 5 fixes

• New File Explorer AI actions: Right-click a file to use AI actions, including image search, background blur or removal, and object erasing. Actions to summarize Micr...
• New Advanced settings: A redesigned Advanced page in Settings brings together developer options and adds controls for long paths, virtual workspaces, and Git...
• Improved Taskbar and System Tray: The Accessibility flyout in quick settings adds text descriptions for assistive technologies, making them easier to identify.

What's being tested 4 new · 2 improved · 8 fixes

• New Settings: On eligible Copilot+ PCs, you can describe a problem in Settings and get recommended steps; with your permission, the agent can carry o...
• New Click to Do: Select at least 10 words to summarize them, make a bulleted list, or rewrite them in a different style.
• New Settings: The System > About page gains an FAQs section with information about system configuration, performance, and compatibility.

What's being tested

• Note The linked release notes identify Dev build 26200.5581 (KB5055651), not the Beta build 26120.3950 listed in the dossier, so they do not...

What's being tested 1 new · 4 improved · 10 fixes

• New Voice typing: A new setting lets you choose whether voice typing masks profanity with asterisks or types it as spoken.
• Improved Click to Do (Preview): On PCs that support pen and inking, you can set the pen shortcut button to open Click to Do with a single-click, double-click, or press...
• Improved Click to Do (Preview): You can add Click to Do to the pen menu as one of the four apps available there.

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

• New Voice typing: A new setting lets you choose whether voice typing masks profanity with asterisks or types it as spoken.
• Improved Taskbar & System Tray: Admins can let users unpin specific pinned apps so they stay unpinned after the next policy refresh.
• Fix File Explorer: Tapping the View button with touch no longer crashes File Explorer.

What's being tested 5 new · 6 improved · 8 fixes

• New Click to Do: Two reading actions let you practice selected text with Reading Coach or read it in Immersive Reader.
• New Windows Search: In the EEA, taskbar search can find cloud photos using descriptions, and search results can include exact matches in cloud-file text.
• New Voice access: You can add custom words to help voice access recognize your vocabulary more accurately.

What's being tested 3 fixes

• Fix File Explorer: In dark mode, the Save dialog shows the Organize and New Folder options.
• Fix Settings: System > About displays the total storage size correctly.
• Fix Voice Access: Voice Access no longer might freeze with the “working on it” error while you dictate.

What's being tested 2 fixes

• Fix File Explorer: Darker borders make keyboard focus easier to see on the Open and Save dialog navigation buttons.
• Fix Settings: Settings could hang while changing when Windows requires you to sign in again after being away.

What's being tested 3 new · 2 improved · 8 fixes

• New Windows Search: On Copilot+ PCs, you can describe a setting in your own words in the taskbar search box instead of remembering its exact name. The sear...
• New Narrator: Narrator can provide detailed descriptions of images, charts, and graphs on Copilot+ PCs. Press Narrator key + Ctrl + D to request a de...
• New Widgets: You can read full articles, slideshows, and videos directly in the MSN feed on the widgets board.

What's being tested 2 improved · 3 fixes

• Improved File Explorer: Folders launched from outside File Explorer open in a new tab when a File Explorer window is already open.
• Improved File Explorer: Labels for cut, copy, paste, rename, share, and delete are disabled in the File Explorer context menu in this Beta build.
• Fix Start menu: The sign-out and more options buttons remain visible in the Start menu account manager when text size is increased.

What's being tested 5 new · 5 improved · 3 fixes

• New Taskbar icon scaling: When the taskbar gets crowded with pinned or open apps, its icons can shrink so more apps stay visible. You can choose whether smaller...
• New File sharing: When you drag a local file from File Explorer or the desktop, a tray appears at the top of the screen. Drop the file on an app in the t...
• New Quick machine recovery: A test remediation package is available for testing Quick machine recovery. It installs automatically when test mode is activated; its...

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

• New Narrator: Speech recap lets Narrator users review and copy recently spoken content, or follow a live transcription.
• New Settings: A new FAQ section on the About page provides answers about your PC and Windows 11.
• Improved Copilot on Windows: You can launch Copilot with Win + C and customize that shortcut or the Copilot key.