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Microsoft has just announced the release of the Windows 11 Insider Preview build 22504. Starting with this build, some Insiders will be able to apply the 13 themes for the touch keyboard to other input experiences, including IMEs, the emoji panel, and voice typing.
The new theme engine also lets Insiders create their own theme with a custom background image, in addition to the existing 13 themes. These new customization options are available under the new “Text Input” section under Settings / Personalization.
Microsoft is also testing with some Insiders the ability for personalized combinations of emoji based on face and skin tones of family members, couples with heart, kissing, and people holding hands. These different combinations are available in the emoji panel (WIN + . ), and the Windows Insider team will be listening to feedback before rolling out these emoji improvements to more testers.
CHANGES AND IMPROVEMENTS
● To further personalize your Windows text input experience, we have expanded the 13 themes for the touch keyboard to now apply to our other input experiences, including IMEs, the emoji panel, and voice typing. Also available for all themed experiences is the theme engine that allows you to create a fully customized theme including background images. This 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.
● We have added the ability for personalized combinations of emoji based on face and skin tones of family members, couples with heart, kissing, and people holding hands. Just open the emoji panel (WIN + . ) and try these combinations out by typing the following in the search box: family, couple, holding hands, or kissing. This 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.
● You can now use the WIN + Alt + K keyboard shortcut to toggle the new mute icon in the Taskbar when it’s showing.
● Based on feedback, we’re making emoji search in Portuguese and Polish a little more flexible with keywords containing diacritics.
● Introducing .NET Framework 4.8.1 our latest .NET Framework that will bring native ARM64 support for the .NET Framework ru
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● As Settings / System / Sound in Windows 11 shows a warning when microphone access has been restricted in your privacy settings, we’re removing the notification to alert you about this.
● Added support for the cancellation of daylight savings time for the Republic of Fiji for 2021.
● We’re making a change so that going forward on new installs the touch indicator option will now be turned off by default under Settings / Accessibility / Mouse pointer and touch. As part of this change, we’ve added a link to this Settings page from Settings / Bluetooth & Devices / Touch and made it so that the press and hold visual is now always displayed regardless of the setting state.
● Apps will now launch maximized by default when in the tablet posture on small devices (11-inch screens diagonal and under).
Today’s Windows 11 build 22504 also brings some minor changes, bug fixes, and known issues!
Fixes
[Start]
● Fixed an issue believed to be the root cause of icons not displaying correctly in the Recommended section of Start (showing the wrong or a generic icon) sometimes.
● If you open Start and immediate press Shift + F10 or the context menu key, the context menu should be aligned with the search box now.
[Taskbar]
● Fixed an issue leading to an explorer.exe crash in recent builds if there were issues loading the battery icon in the Taskbar.
● Mitigated a positioning issue that could cause the date and time to get clipped off the end of the Taskbar.
● If you’ve updated the critical and low battery level notification definitions, the battery icon in the Taskbar will now align with that, rather than using the default values to show a warning.
● Right-clicking the date and time in the Taskbar will now dismiss the Notification Center if it’s open, so that you can see the context menu options.
[Input]
● Keyboard lights (for example, for Caps lock) should work properly again now with this build.
● We’ve made a few more tweaks to our emoji search keywords based on feedback, including improving results for day, night, and face with a raised eyebrow. Please continue sharing feedback with us about this under Input and Language /*. Emoji Panel in the Feedback Hub.
● Fixed an issue that was causing the kaomoji list in WIN + . to be blank when accessed while using a Chinese IME.
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