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

• New Voice typing: A new setting lets you choose whether voice typing filters profanity. When filtering is on, profanity is masked with asterisks; when it...
• 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): Click to Do can be added as one of the four apps launched from the pen menu.

What's being tested 5 new · 8 improved · 10 fixes

• New Click to Do: Practice recognized text out loud with feedback and guidance from Reading Coach.
• New Click to Do: Read recognized text in a distraction-free view, with options to change its appearance, hear it aloud, and explore words.
• New Windows Search: In the EEA, search the taskbar for cloud photos by describing what they show. Results also include exact matches in the text of cloud f...

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

• New Windows Search: On Copilot+ PCs, you can search for settings using everyday wording, such as “change my theme,” even when you are offline.
• New Narrator: On Copilot+ PCs, Narrator can describe image details such as people, objects, colors, text, and numbers. Non-Copilot+ PCs continue to p...
• Improved Widgets: You can read full articles, slideshows, and videos directly in the MSN feed on the widgets board.

What's being tested 4 new · 6 improved · 3 fixes

• New Taskbar icon scaling: When the taskbar gets crowded, its icons can shrink so more apps stay visible. You can choose whether they shrink when the taskbar is f...
• New Drag tray: When you drag a local file from File Explorer or the desktop, a tray appears at the top of the screen with apps where you can drop it,...
• New Recall: Recall gains a basic search history feature.

What's being tested 10 new · 5 improved · 13 fixes

• New Improved Windows Search: On AMD and Intel Copilot+ PCs, you can describe a document, image, or setting in your own words to find it. Settings descriptions work...
• New Improved Windows Search: Search can find cloud photos alongside local photos, and show exact keyword matches in cloud-file text.
• New Narrator: Speech recap lets you review what Narrator said, follow live transcription, and copy the last spoken phrase.

What's being tested 1 improved

• Improved Click to Do: Intelligent text actions in Click to Do in Recall are checked on your PC rather than through a cloud service.

What's being tested 2 new · 2 improved · 6 fixes

• New Voice access: On Snapdragon-powered Copilot+ PCs, voice access understands more natural ways of saying a command and shows real-time command suggesti...
• New Settings: A new Settings page lets you choose which apps can provide recommended actions on Copilot+ PCs.
• Improved Voice access: Voice access can navigate, dictate, and interact with Windows in Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.

What's being tested 6 new · 3 improved · 7 fixes

• New File Explorer: File Explorer Home shows Recommended files based on your activity, including files you use often, recently downloaded, or added to the...
• New Start menu: The Recommended section may suggest two apps to snap together.
• New Notifications: A notification asks you to add a secondary email or recovery phone number if you use a Microsoft account on your PC and have not added...

What's being tested 3 new · 2 improved · 6 fixes

• New Lock screen widgets: You can add, remove, and rearrange lock screen widgets such as Weather, Watchlist, Sports, and Traffic. This rollout starts with Inside...
• New Group Policy: IT administrators can disable lock screen widgets without disabling widgets elsewhere on managed PCs.
• New Snipping Tool: You can trim screen recordings by adjusting their start and end times.

What's being tested 2 new · 2 improved · 6 fixes

• New Improved Windows Search: Taskbar search can find photos saved in the cloud as well as photos on the PC. It can also show exact keyword matches in cloud file tex...
• New Snipping Tool: Screen recordings can be trimmed by adjusting their start and end times.
• Improved Recall (Preview): This update deletes previous Recall snapshots. Recall saves new snapshots only if the option to save snapshots is turned on in Settings...

What's being tested 4 new · 11 improved · 11 fixes

• New OneDrive: A notification lets you open on your PC a supported OneDrive file you recently viewed or edited on your phone.
• New Taskbar & System Tray: You can share a file from an app's taskbar jump list.
• New File Explorer: You can snooze or turn off the “Start backup” reminder from its address-bar prompt.

What's being tested 3 new · 16 fixes

• New Improved Windows Search: On Snapdragon-powered Copilot+ PCs, File Explorer can find photos saved in your personal OneDrive using descriptions of what the photos...
• New Settings: The Settings homepage is adding cards for enterprise device information and accessibility preferences on managed commercial PCs. Some u...
• New Paint: Paint's Copilot menu puts Cocreator, Image Creator, Generative erase, and Remove background in one dropdown with short descriptions. Co...

What's being tested 2 new · 4 improved · 6 fixes

• New Battery icons: Colored battery icons show charging and battery status at a glance, and you can choose to show the battery percentage beside the taskba...
• New Narrator: New Narrator shortcuts help you jump to list items and move to the beginning or end of large tables, lists, and landmarks.
• Improved Input: The touch keyboard's gamepad layout returns, so you can use an Xbox controller to navigate and type.

What's being tested 1 new · 1 improved

• New Live captions and real-time translation: Live captions can translate speech from video calls, recordings, and streamed content into English on AMD- and Intel-powered Copilot+ P...
• Improved Live captions: Live captions begin translating speech into Simplified Chinese on Snapdragon-powered Copilot+ PCs.

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

• New Windows Camera Advanced Configurations: Camera settings add Multi-app camera, which lets multiple apps use the camera stream at the same time, and Basic camera, a simpler opti...
• New WebAuthn Plugin Authenticator APIs: Windows adds support for third-party passkey providers, which will be an additional choice alongside the built-in Windows passkey provi...
• New Microsoft Edge Game Assist: Game Assist Preview puts a gaming-focused browser over your game in Game Bar, with gaming tips and guides and access to browser data sh...

What's being tested 8 new · 2 improved · 12 fixes

• New Recall (Preview): The Recall preview is available on AMD- and Intel-powered Copilot+ PCs, including in the European Economic Area.
• New Cocreator in Paint: Cocreator uses a text prompt and your drawing on the Paint canvas to generate artwork.
• New Image Creator in Photos: Image Creator generates a collection of images from a text prompt.

What's being tested 3 new · 2 improved · 5 fixes

• New Recall: Recall (Preview) lets eligible Insiders find apps, websites, images, and documents in saved snapshots by searching or describing what t...
• New Click to Do: Click to Do (Preview) recognizes text and images in Recall snapshots and offers actions such as copying text, searching the web, sharin...
• New Narrator: Narrator scan mode adds shortcuts to skip past links and jump directly to lists on web pages and in documents.

What's being tested 1 improved · 4 fixes

• Improved Hold Shift and Ctrl while selecting a Start menu or taskbar jump-list item to launch it as an administrator.
• Fix File Explorer: The See More menu opens in the correct direction and is less likely to appear offscreen.
• Fix Input: On systems with multiple monitors, the mouse remains usable in a game after you open and close Game Bar.

What's being tested 3 improved · 17 fixes

• Improved Input: When you type in Chinese or Japanese in a full-screen app, the IME toolbar is hidden if you have it enabled.
• Improved Input: The new Gamepad keyboard layout for the on-screen keyboard is temporarily disabled while issues are addressed. It is expected to return...
• Improved Taskbar: When the taskbar auto-hides, its search box is visible if taskbar search is set to “Search box” rather than an icon.

What's being tested 1 new · 3 improved · 10 fixes

• New Windows Studio Effects: A system tray icon appears when an app uses a Studio Effects-enabled camera. Click it to open Studio Effects in Quick Settings, or hove...
• Improved Dynamic Lighting: When no compatible devices are connected, the Dynamic Lighting settings page shows a placeholder and disables the Brightness and Effect...
• Improved Dynamic Lighting: The Wave effect gains Forward, Backward, Outward, and Inward directions. The Gradient effect gains a Forward direction.

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

• New Input: The on-screen keyboard has a Gamepad layout for navigating and typing with an Xbox controller. It includes controller shortcuts for act...
• New Narrator: A new shortcut copies the last thing Narrator spoke to the clipboard.
• Improved Start menu: The “All apps” label on the Start menu is now “All”.

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

• New Snipping Tool: Copy as table copies structured table data from a screenshot so you can paste it into an email, document, or spreadsheet. It works best...
• Improved Taskbar & System Tray: Taskbar app previews are updated, and their animations are improved.
• Improved Task Manager: The Disconnect and Logoff dialogs support dark mode and text scaling.

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

• New Fonts: A new simplified Chinese font adds 9,753 ideographs, including the character for Biangbiang noodles. Some apps might not display the ne...
• New Settings: You can choose an eligible app to open when you press the Copilot key. The setting is under Settings > Personalization > Text input; it...
• New Clock app: New countdown and timer widgets are available for the widgets board.

What's being tested 2 improved · 4 fixes

• Improved Mobile Hotspot: Mobile Hotspot can use 6 GHz connections on compatible PCs with the required chips and updated drivers. It uses 6 GHz only when you exp...
• Improved Open Source Software: Text files include attributions for Rust open-source software components.
• Fix Task Manager: Task Manager's Settings page no longer might have an unexpected white background.

What's being tested 4 new · 13 improved · 17 fixes

• New File Explorer Home: A Shared tab gives you quick access to files shared with your account. Recent, Favorites, and Shared also support more file types.
• New Windows Sandbox Client Preview: The preview adds controls for clipboard sharing, audio and video input, and sharing folders with the host while Sandbox is running. It...
• New Search on the Taskbar: You can share local files directly from search results in the taskbar search box.