Windows 11 Insider build 22624.1546 has enhanced search within Settings.

Microsoft has published a new Windows 11 Insider build to the beta channel after delaying the update for a few days. The latest beta release is accompanied by Windows 11 build 22624.1546. Because this is for the beta channel, a pared down version is available with build 22621.1546.

Along with the Beta channel update, Microsoft also provided Insider builds for the Canary and Dev channels, which can be seen here. These are weekly Insider Preview updates that are only available to users that are subscribed to the various channels.

There are now two builds available in the beta channel: one with complete features and one with fewer features. Insider build 22624.1546 is a major upgrade in today’s update, whereas build 22621.1546 is a minor update.

The latest update makes several adjustments to the Settings. Enhanced search performance is included. Limit of 20 most recent tabs, new shortcut to activate the snipping tool, and more. The whole changelog is available below.

Build 22624.1546 Changes and Improvements

[General]

In the previous flight, we documented that Content Adaptive Brightness Control (CABC) works on desktop PCs – however, it does not. We have updated that blog post. Content Adaptive Brightness Control (CABC) also needs to be enabled by the OEM (the manufacturer of the device). As a result, this feature is not available on all laptop or 2-in-1 devices.

[Settings]

Improved the performance of search within Settings.
Pressing the print screen key will now open Snipping Tool by default. This setting can be turned off via Settings > Accessibility > Keyboard. If you have previously modified this setting yourself, your preference will be preserved.
A limit of 20 most recent tabs has been introduced under Settings > Multitasking to show tabs in ALT + TAB and Snap Assist.

Fixes in Build 22624.1546

[Input]

Fixed an issue where text input features like touch keyboard, voice typing, and emoji panel might not launch.
Fixed an issue where the buttons in the Pinyin IME’s settings flyout were hard to see when they had focus if a contrast theme was enabled.

[Task Manager]

Fixed an issue where some of the details in the Performance page wouldn’t display properly until you resized the window or changed pages back and forth.

Known issues

[Search on the Taskbar]

If you have the Bing button in the search box on the taskbar and you restart your computer, you may see the daily rotating search highlight for some time before getting the Bing button back.

[File Explorer]

Insiders who have access keys in File Explorer:

[NEW] Shift + Right click on a file or folder is not opening “Show more options”.

[Live captions]

On ARM64 devices, enhanced speech recognition support installed through the Language & Region settings page will require restarting live captions if you switch languages in the live captions Caption language menu.
Certain languages shown on the Language & Region settings page will indicate speech recognition support (e.g., Korean) but don’t yet have support for live captions.
When adding a language through the Language & Region settings page, language feature installation progress may become hidden, and you may not see install completion of “Enhanced speech recognition” (required by Live Captions). (You can use the language’s “Language options” to monitor progress.) If this happens, there may be an unexpected delay before the live caption setup experience detects this and lets you continue.
Captioning performance may be degraded in non-English languages and missing out-of-language filtering in non-English (United States) languages which means that incorrect captions will be shown for speech not in the caption language.

You can receive any updates if you are an Insider in the beta channel. You will have the opportunity to upgrade to the main update if you receive the smaller build 22621.1546. To check for updates, navigate to Settings > Windows Update.

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