Hiya Home windows Insiders, as we speak we’re releasing Home windows 11 Insider Preview Construct 26220.7051 (KB5067115) to the Dev & Beta Channels.
Beginning as we speak, we’re starting to supply the identical Dev Channel updates based mostly 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 the next construct quantity, the chance to change between these channels will shut. When the Dev Channel jumps forward, issues won’t be as secure because the Dev Channel is as we speak, so we extremely encourage you to judge which channel you want to be in in the course of the time wherein the window to change is open.
For extra info, see the Reminders part on the backside of this weblog submit.
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 offers you one-click entry to Copilot Imaginative and prescient and Voice, enabling extra pure interplay in your circulation. Whether or not by means of textual content, voice, or guided help with Copilot Imaginative and prescient, you may interact in your phrases, in the best way that works finest for you. You’re at all times 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 may proceed utilizing Search as you at all times have from Begin whereas attempting out this new expertise.
Ask Copilot makes use of current Home windows APIs to return apps, recordsdata, and settings—identical to Home windows Search—and does not grant Copilot entry to your private content material. For extra particulars, you may find out about privateness and management choices for Microsoft Copilot right here.
Suggestions: Share your ideas in Suggestions Hub (WIN + F) beneath Desktop Setting > 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, as we speak’s preview to Home windows Insiders expands availability to extra Home windows 11 handheld gadgets presently 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.
The right way to 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 may entry FSE from Job 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) beneath 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 know-how, for Copilot+ PCs. Shared audio permits two relations to look at films 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 characteristic replace to Prism, our emulator for Home windows on Arm, that makes it potential for extra 64-bit x86 (x64) functions to run beneath emulation by including help for extra CPU options beneath emulation. This help will likely be made out there to any 64-bit x86 (x64) software beneath emulation by default, and 32-bit x86 functions will be opted in to the help 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) beneath Apps and the precise app you’re seeing points with (when you don’t see the app listed, use “All different apps”) to assist us to make sure that this up to date Prism supplies an amazing expertise.
Fixes progressively being rolled out with toggle on*
[General]
- Fastened an underlying challenge resulting in keyboards or different USB gadgets not working for a small variety of Insiders after the most recent flights.
[Start menu]
- Fastened a difficulty the place interacting with a folder or its contents in Begin menu might outcome within the folder turning into invisible.
[File Explorer]
- Made some underlying modifications to assist responsiveness of File Explorer when navigating in community places.
- Made some extra underlying enhancements to assist cut back the launch time of File Explorer.
- Fastened a difficulty the place “Open” in File Explorer’s context menu wasn’t exhibiting the precise icon for .exe, .cmd & .bat recordsdata (was exhibiting a generic executable icon, as an alternative of the default app for that file sort).
- Fastened a difficulty the place you would possibly see your desktop icons transfer when interacting with recordsdata, reminiscent of opening or renaming them.
- Fastened a pair points the place tooltips weren’t exhibiting up as anticipated when utilizing navigating Residence with a keyboard.
[Lock and login screens]
- Fastened 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.
- Fastened a difficulty which might trigger logging into be very sluggish the primary time when logging into a brand new account.
[Settings]
- Fastened a difficulty the place the search field in Settings might change into overlapped with the minimal and maximize buttons within the title bar.
[Other]
- Fastened a difficulty the place after the most recent updates, display screen readers would possibly unexpectedly say “legacy window” with out studying out the window contents when interacting with sure apps.
- Fastened a difficulty the place after the most recent updates, textual content won’t render appropriately when modifying content material inside a multiline textual content field in sure apps.
- Fastened a difficulty the place protected content material playback would possibly fail on some machines after the most recent updates.
- Fastened a difficulty which might trigger ethernet add speeds to be considerably decrease on some PCs after the most recent updates.
Recognized 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 when you press the Home windows key. It’s believed this challenge might also probably impression the notification heart (which you’ll open with WIN + N).
- We’re investigating a difficulty the place for some Insiders apps aren’t exhibiting within the system tray when they need to be.
[File Explorer]
- Copy progress would possibly flash when clicking roughly particulars in darkish mode model of the copy dialog.
- Scrollbar and footer are lacking and exhibiting 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 based mostly on Home windows 11, model 25H2 by way of an enablement package deal (Construct 26220.xxxx).
- Many options are rolled out utilizing Managed Function Rollout know-how, 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 may flip ON the toggle to get the most recent updates as they’re out there by way of Settings > Home windows Replace*. Over time, we’ll improve the rollouts of options to everybody with the toggle turned on. Do you have to hold 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 totally 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 once they’re prepared.
- Some options in energetic growth we preview with Home windows Insiders is probably not 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 by way of Suggestions Hub.
- Try Flight Hub for a whole have a look at what construct is wherein Insider channel.
Thanks,
Amanda
