Microsoft is constantly updating Windows with new features and other changes, and those show up first in the Windows Insider builds. Here’s everything Microsoft rolled out in Insider builds this week, most of which should roll out to regular PCs over the coming weeks and months.

Speech Recap in Narrator

Narrator is the built-in screen reader in Windows, giving people with impaired vision the ability to use many applications and websites. Accessibility is one area where generative AI has been incredibly helpful, and now some of that is coming to Narrator in a new ‘speech recap’ feature.

Microsoft said in a blog post, “With speech recap, you can quickly access spoken content, follow along with live transcription, and copy what Narrator last said—all with simple keyboard shortcuts. You can open the speech recap window with Narrator key + Alt + X and can find the last 500 strings Narrator had spoken. Note that we refresh the text in this window every time Narrator starts. You can use standard reading commands and arrow keys to read the contents in speech recap window and copy text required for reference.”

Copilot on Windows

• The Win+C keyboard shortcut for opening Copilot on Windows is rolling out more widely. You can change that (and the dedicated Copilot key) to another action from Settings > Personalization > Text input.
• Press to talk is supported in the latest Copilot app update (version 1.25033.139.0 and higher). This update is beginning to roll out across Insider Channels via the Microsoft Store.
• Win + C and press to talk are gradually rolling out so not all Insiders will get the update right away.

Click to Do (preview)

• Click to Do, the feature on Copilot+ PCs that reads text and images on screen and suggests actions based on the content, is coming to the Start menu. It appears in the Start search as “Click to Do (preview)” on compatible PCs.
• Click to Do can now perform intelligent text actions in Spanish and French in addition to English.
• Click to Do now has a text action to create a bulleted list. Currently available in English, Spanish, and French and on Snapdragon-powered Copilot+ PCs and coming soon for AMD and Intel®-powered Copilot+ PCs.
• The intelligent text actions are now “locally moderated” to ensure the safety of prompts and responses and has replaced the cloud endpoint. Now that these intelligent text actions are fully local, they are also available in Click to Do in Recall.

Windows Share

When you share links or web content using the Windows share window, you will now see a visual preview for that content. Apple devices have a similar preview in the share menu, so it’s nice to see Windows catch up there.

In the Windows share window, Microsoft is adding the ability to quickly edit and enhance images while sharing. This includes in-line image editing capabilities, such as cropping, rotating, and applying filters, as well as the ability to compress images to reduce file size for easier sharing. This ability works only for local images stored on your PC.

Semantic Search

Microsoft is starting to roll out an improved search in the File Explorer for Copilot+ PCs. It uses the NPU hardware to better organize and index your files, so you can use phrases like “budget spreadsheet” or “landscape” to find files matching that description, even if the file names don’t exactly match.

The company said in a blog post, “We are making finding your documents, photos, and settings across Windows 11 easier on AMD and Intel®-powered Copilot+ PCs by introducing semantic indexing along with traditional indexing. Whether it’s searching in File Explorer, in the Windows search box on your taskbar, or in Settings – just type what’s on your mind to find it on your Copilot+ PC. You no longer need to remember file names, exact words in file content, or settings names.”

Copilot+ PCs will also get the ability to find photos saved in the cloud using the same advanced search. Microsoft explained, “In addition to photos stored locally on your Copilot+ PC, photos from the cloud will now show up in the search results together. In addition to searching for photos, exact matches for your keywords within the text of your cloud files will show in the search results.”

This feature is already live in the Release Preview Channel, so it should roll out to regular builds of Windows 11 in the near future.

Microsoft Photos Updates

The latest update to the Photos app in Windows, version 2025.11030.20006.0, has a few new useful features. It now has optical character recognition (OCR) with support for over 160 languages, allowing you to select text in images for copying to the clipboard or searching the web.

You can also now right-click an image in the File Explorer and select ‘Create with Designer’. This will open Designer in the Photos app for AI-powered object selection, background replacement, and other actions. I’m not sure why that functionality is in a separate Designer interface, and not just the regular Photos interface, but that’s Windows for you.

Finally, the Photos app now supports JPEG XL files (.jxl format), so you don’t have to open those images in a web browser or other application.

Other Changes

• Microsoft is removing the bypassnro.cmd script from the build to “enhance security and user experience of Windows 11.” This was a popular workaround for setting up Windows 11 with a local user account, but other methods like Rufus should continue to work.
• Microsoft updated the web sign-in icon slightly to better align with the other icons when selecting a sign in option on the login screen.
• The new streamlined interface for unexpected restarts, with messages like “Your device ran into a problem and needs to restart,” is rolling out more widely. The screen has a green background for PCs on Insider builds.

• The Settings app now has “top cards” in the ‘About’ section that shows your storage, graphics card information, RAM, and processor at a quick glance. The section only appears for some PCs.

Source: Windows Insider Blog (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)