Microsoft has announced a new build today for Windows 11 insiders on the Dev channel
Dubbed Build 22518, it brings some changes to Windows 11 widgets as we know them so far
There is also the new Voice access feature, and Windows 11 Spotlight collection of wallpapers
Let's dive right in
But before that, the company has stated that the new build breaks the build rollout on ARM64 PCs
This build will not be offered to ARM64 PCs due to an issue that causes these devices to rollback when attempting to update to this build
With that out of the way, here are changes in this build:
If you aren't familiar with Windows 11 widgets, you can check out our Closer look article on the topic
Build 22518 also brings Voice Accessibility
Microsoft says that build 22518 adds an "inspiring" Whitehaven Beach background and up to five more pictures (for now at least)
Now moving over to the improvements in the new build, there are some context menu changes, among others, Plus the ability to view clock and time on the secondary display
Starting with today’s build we’re rolling out an underlying platform change to improve the overall performance and reliability of the input switcher for Insiders using multiple keyboard languages and layouts
In addition to this, we’re updating the input switcher to now have an acrylic background
If you have any feedback for the input switcher, please file it in the Feedback Hub under Input and Language > Keyboard and language switching
[We are beginning to roll this change out, so it isn’t available to all Insiders just yet as we plan to monitor feedback and see how it lands before pushing it out to everyone.]
Input switcher UI with acrylic background
“Install” when right clicking on font files and .inf files
“Install certificate” when right clicking on .cer files
“Map network drive” and “Disconnect network drive” when right clicking on This PC
“Disconnect” when right clicking on network drives
The ability for personalized combinations of emoji based on face and skin tones of family members, couples with heart, kissing, and people holding hands which we began rolling out with Build 22504 is now available to all Insiders in the Dev Channel
Starting with Build 22509, we began rolling out a change to display your clock and date will now also be displayed on the taskbars of the secondary monitor or monitors
This is now available to all Insiders in the Dev Channel
We’ve added a new extra-large candidate height option for Simplified Chinese IME users under Personalization > Text Input in Settings
Here are the fixes in this build:
You can find the original press release for the build here
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