Microsoft releases Windows 11 Preview Build 23536 and 25941

It’s Thursday and Microsoft has, as expected, released two new Insider Preview builds. Today Microsoft released Windows 11 build 23536 to the Dev channel and Windows 11 build 25941 to the Canary channel.

The new Insider build for the Dev channel focuses on bug fixes while the new build for the Canary channel brings some new features as well. Both are part of weekly updates so don’t expect them to be big updates.

Windows 11 build 25941 brings option to enable Dynamic refresh rate via toggle. Enabling the dynamic refresh rate will adjust refresh rate according to the open screen which will help save battery. Also the new update brings awareness to the Refresh rate limitations with display resolution.

Here are all the changes for both builds.

Windows 11 build 25941 (Canary Channel) Changes:

Changes and Improvements

[Graphics]

• In this Insider Preview build, you may notice that there have been some changes in the advanced display settings page via Settings > System > Display > Advanced display. Dynamic refresh rate can now be enabled via a toggle. After being enabled, Windows will then dynamically adjust the refresh rate up to the selected rate to help save power. Click here for more information on Dynamic refresh rate.
• Additionally, we’ve made small changes to help bring awareness to limitations (related to the display or the cable being used) that may not allow you to set a high refresh rate while being on a high display resolution. When selecting a refresh rate, you may notice some refresh rates will show an asterisk. That means that in order to select that specific refresh rate, the display resolution will need to be changed to one that supports the selected refresh rate. This behavior happens when there are limitations due to the cable or the display’s capabilities and is not new, but we wanted to make sure you were aware of it.

[Cast]

• Building off the Cast improvements introduced with Build 25926, we have updated the Cast flyout in Quick Settings with additional support for you in case you face any trouble discovering nearby displays, fixing connections, and more.

[Settings]

• The graph at the top of the Power & Battery page in Settings has been removed. Insiders can continue to see a graph of battery usage in the battery usage section further down the page. The Power & battery settings page is also no longer broken up by “Power” and “Battery” sections.

Fixes for known issues

• Fixed issues impacting the File Explorer context menu and command bar dropdowns, causing them to become transparent, and not work with touch.
• Fixed issues impacting File Explorer launch reliability.
• Fixed issues causing the Japanese and Chinese IMEs to not work properly in certain apps, and to not work correctly in the File Explorer search box.
• Fixed an issue causing Settings to crash when looking at detailed battery usage.
• The new options for tuning intensity and color boost of Color Filters now have labels.

Windows 11 Build 23536 (Dev Channel) Changes:

Fixes

[Windows Copilot]

• Fixed an issue that was causing the Windows Copilot icon in the taskbar to be flipped backwards for right-to-left languages.

[Taskbar]

• Fixed an explorer.exe crash impacting taskbar appearing correctly after powering on your device.
• Fixed an issue which was causing apps in the taskbar to appear cut off without a rounded corner on the end when you had a lot of app windows open, and the taskbar was set to not combine.

[Live captions]

• Fixed an issue that was causing live captions to sometimes show the same line of text twice.

[Input]

• Fixed a high hitting ctfmon.exe crash in recent flights, which may have impacted the ability to type for some Insiders.

[Settings]

• Did some work to help improve the performance of opening Settings for Insiders with the new Home page.

[Task Manager]

• Fixed an issue that could cause Task Manager to crash when using the end task option in the Details page recent builds.

Microsoft also mentioned known issues that you can check out by heading to Canary build announcement page, and Dev build announcement page.

As the new beta updates are available to Windows Insiders on specific channels, you will receive new updates based on the channel you are part of. So if you selected Canary channel you will receive the Canary build, same goes for the Dev Channel users. You can check for the update by going to Settings > Windows Update.

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