Hiya Home windows Insiders, right this moment we’re releasing Home windows 11 Insider Preview Construct 26220.7051 (KB5067115) to the Dev & Beta Channels.
Beginning right this moment, we’re starting to supply the identical Dev Channel updates primarily based on Home windows 11, model 25H2 to Home windows Insiders within the Beta Channel as a really helpful replace.
In case you are an Insider within the Dev Channel, you now have a window to change from the Dev Channel to the Beta Channel if you need. This window will solely be open for so long as we’re releasing the identical 25H2-based updates throughout each the Dev and Beta Channels. After we transfer Dev Channel ahead to a better construct quantity, the chance to change between these channels will shut. When the Dev Channel jumps forward, issues may not be as steady because the Dev Channel is right this moment, so we extremely encourage you to guage which channel you wish to be in through the time during which the window to change is open.
For extra data, see the Reminders part on the backside of this weblog publish.
New options progressively being rolled out with toggle on*
Introducing Ask Copilot in taskbar
With the brand new Ask Copilot in taskbar, Copilot turns into a pure a part of how you employ your PC, prepared to assist, information and collaborate the second you want it.
This opt-in expertise provides you one-click entry to Copilot Imaginative and prescient and Voice, enabling extra pure interplay in your stream. Whether or not by means of textual content, voice, or guided assist with Copilot Imaginative and prescient, you possibly can have interaction in your phrases, in the best way that works greatest for you. You’re all the time in management. As you sort, outcomes seem and replace immediately, making it simpler than ever to seek out what you want.
To get began go to Settings > Personalization > Taskbar > Ask Copilot to allow the expertise. You may as well handle whether or not the Copilot app launches robotically at sign-in utilizing the “Auto begin on log in” toggle within the Copilot app settings.
Ask Copilot in taskbar enhances the acquainted Home windows Search expertise, so you possibly can proceed utilizing Search as you all the time have from Begin whereas attempting out this new expertise.
Ask Copilot makes use of current Home windows APIs to return apps, information, and settings—similar to Home windows Search—and does not grant Copilot entry to your private content material. For extra particulars, you possibly can find out about privateness and management choices for Microsoft Copilot right here.
Suggestions: Share your ideas in Suggestions Hub (WIN + F) below Desktop Surroundings > Ask Copilot in taskbar.
Full display screen expertise
Following the preliminary launch of the complete display screen expertise (FSE) on the ASUS ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X, right this moment’s preview to Home windows Insiders expands availability to extra Home windows 11 handheld gadgets at present in market.
Designed with console-style navigation in thoughts, the Xbox PC app paired with the complete display screen expertise delivers a clear, distraction-free interface for handheld gaming. You’ll get clean job switching and optimized efficiency, with background processes minimized and non-essential duties deferred—so gameplay stays responsive and uninterrupted.
allow FSE:
On supported gadgets, go to Settings > Gaming > Full display screen expertise, then choose Xbox as your own home app. As soon as enabled, you possibly can entry FSE from Activity View and Sport Bar or configure your handheld to enter full display screen expertise on startup.
Availability:
Suggestions: Share your ideas in Suggestions Hub (WIN + F) below Gaming and Xbox > Gaming Handhelds.
Shared audio (preview)
- On this replace, we’re starting rollout of shared audio (preview), a brand new expertise constructed on Bluetooth® LE Audio broadcast expertise, for Copilot+ PCs. Shared audio permits two relations to observe motion pictures collectively whereas touring, or two college students to share music whereas finding out.
- To get began, entry the “Shared audio (preview)” tile in fast settings, choose two supported paired and linked equipment and click on “Share” to start.
- For extra details about shared audio (preview), together with particulars about suitable PCs and equipment, go to Extending Bluetooth® LE Audio on Home windows 11 with shared audio (preview).
Adjustments and Enhancements progressively being rolled out with toggle on*
[Prism]
- We’re enabling the function replace to Prism, our emulator for Home windows on Arm, that makes it potential for extra 64-bit x86 (x64) purposes to run below emulation by including assist for extra CPU options below emulation. This assist might be made obtainable to any 64-bit x86 (x64) utility below emulation by default, and 32-bit x86 purposes might be opted in to the assist utilizing the emulation settings within the Properties window.
- Please submit any suggestions on compatibility points or efficiency regressions by means of the Suggestions Hub (Win + F) below Apps and the particular app you’re seeing points with (in case you don’t see the app listed, use “All different apps”) to assist us to make sure that this up to date Prism gives an excellent expertise.
Fixes progressively being rolled out with toggle on*
[General]
- Mounted an underlying concern resulting in keyboards or different USB gadgets not working for a small variety of Insiders after the newest flights.
[Start menu]
- Mounted a difficulty the place interacting with a folder or its contents in Begin menu might end result within the folder turning into invisible.
[File Explorer]
- Made some underlying adjustments to assist responsiveness of File Explorer when navigating in community areas.
- Made some extra underlying enhancements to assist cut back the launch time of File Explorer.
- Mounted a difficulty the place “Open” in File Explorer’s context menu wasn’t displaying the proper icon for .exe, .cmd & .bat information (was displaying a generic executable icon, as an alternative of the default app for that file sort).
- Mounted a difficulty the place you may see your desktop icons transfer when interacting with information, equivalent to opening or renaming them.
- Mounted a pair points the place tooltips weren’t displaying up as anticipated when utilizing navigating House with a keyboard.
[Lock and login screens]
- Mounted a reminiscence leak when your lock display screen was set to slip present, which might result in efficiency or reliability points over time when unlocking your PC.
- Mounted a difficulty which might trigger logging into be very sluggish the primary time when logging into a brand new account.
[Settings]
- Mounted a difficulty the place the search field in Settings might grow to be overlapped with the minimal and maximize buttons within the title bar.
[Other]
- Mounted a difficulty the place after the newest updates, display screen readers may unexpectedly say “legacy window” with out studying out the window contents when interacting with sure apps.
- Mounted a difficulty the place after the newest updates, textual content may not render accurately when modifying content material inside a multiline textual content field in sure apps.
- Mounted a difficulty the place protected content material playback may fail on some machines after the newest updates.
- Mounted a difficulty which might trigger ethernet add speeds to be considerably decrease on some PCs after the newest updates.
Identified points
[Taskbar & System Tray]
- We’re investigating a difficulty which is inflicting the Begin menu to not open for some Insiders on click on, though it would open in case you press the Home windows key. It’s believed this concern can also doubtlessly impression the notification heart (which you’ll be able to open with WIN + N).
- We’re investigating a difficulty the place for some Insiders apps aren’t displaying within the system tray when they need to be.
[File Explorer]
- Copy progress may flash when clicking roughly particulars in darkish mode model of the copy dialog.
- Scrollbar and footer are lacking and displaying a white block as an alternative when textual content is scaled in darkish mode model of the copy dialog.
Reminders for Home windows Insiders within the Dev & Beta Channels
- Updates are primarily based on Home windows 11, model 25H2 through an enablement package deal (Construct 26220.xxxx).
- Many options are rolled out utilizing Managed Function Rollout expertise, beginning with a subset of Insiders and ramping up over time as we monitor suggestions to see how they land earlier than pushing them out to everybody on this channel.
- For Home windows Insiders who need to be the primary to get options progressively rolled out to you, you possibly can flip ON the toggle to get the newest updates as they’re obtainable through Settings > Home windows Replace*. Over time, we are going to enhance the rollouts of options to everybody with the toggle turned on. Do you have to preserve this toggle off, new options will progressively be rolled out to your PC over time as soon as they’re prepared.
- Options and experiences included in these builds might by no means get launched as we check out completely different ideas and get suggestions. Options might change over time, be eliminated, or changed and by no means get launched past Home windows Insiders. A few of these options and experiences might present up in future Home windows releases after they’re prepared.
- Some options in lively growth we preview with Home windows Insiders might not be absolutely localized and localization will occur over time as options are finalized. As you see points with localization in your language, please report these points to us through Suggestions Hub.
- Take a look at Flight Hub for a whole have a look at what construct is during which Insider channel.
Thanks,
Amanda
