Microsoft has launched the KB5055627 preview cumulative replace for Home windows 11 24H2 with many new options step by step rolling out, and a few new bug fixes for everybody.
The KB5055627 replace is a part of the corporate’s elective non-security preview updates schedule, which pushes updates on the finish of every month to let Home windows admins take a look at bug fixes, enhancements, and options that may roll out throughout subsequent month’s Might Patch Tuesday launch.
In contrast to common Patch Tuesday cumulative updates, month-to-month non-security preview updates don’t embody safety updates.
You possibly can set up the KB5055627 replace by opening Settings, clicking on Home windows Replace, after which on ‘Examine for Updates.’
As a result of that is an elective replace, you can be requested if you wish to set up it by clicking the ‘Obtain and set up’ hyperlink until you’ve gotten the “Get the newest updates as quickly as they’re obtainable” choice enabled, which is able to trigger the replace to robotically set up.
You may as well manually obtain and set up the KB5055627 preview replace from the Microsoft Replace Catalog.
Home windows 11 KB5055627 highlights
As soon as put in, this elective cumulative launch will replace Home windows 11 24H2 methods to construct 26100.3915.
The April 2025 preview replace comes with a number of new options which might be step by step rolling out, with many centered on Microsoft Copilot+ PCs:
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[Recall (preview)1]New! You’re employed throughout so many apps, websites, and paperwork it may be laborious to recollect the place you noticed one thing you wish to get again to. Recall (preview) saves you time by providing a completely new option to seek for stuff you’ve seen or finished in your PC securely. With the AI capabilities of Copilot+ PCs, it’s now potential to rapidly discover and get again to any app, web site, picture, or doc simply by describing its content material. To make use of Recall, you will want to opt-in to avoid wasting snapshots, that are photos of your exercise, and enroll in Home windows Hi there to verify your presence so solely you’ll be able to entry your snapshots. You’re all the time in charge of what snapshots are saved and might pause saving snapshots at any time. As you employ your Copilot+ PC all through the day engaged on paperwork or shows, taking video calls, and context switching throughout actions, Recall will take common snapshots and allow you to discover issues sooner and simpler. When you must discover or get again to one thing you’ve finished beforehand, open Recall and authenticate with Home windows Hi there. Once you’ve discovered what you had been on the lookout for, you’ll be able to reopen the applying, web site, or doc, or use Click on to Do to behave on any picture or textual content within the snapshot you discovered.
The characteristic is rolling out in early 2025 to most markets after which to the European Financial Space later this yr.
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New! Click on to Do (preview) makes it simpler than ever so that you can take quick motion on no matter catches your eye on-screen in your Copilot+ PC, saving you time by serving to full duties inline and rapidly getting you to the app that may finest full the job. For instance, choose a picture utilizing Click on to Do to take actions like erasing objects utilizing the Photographs app or take away the background utilizing Paint. To make use of Click on to Do, merely use Home windows key + mouse click on or Home windows key + Q. You may as well enter by way of the Snipping Device menu and print display screen or looking out “Click on to Do” within the search field on the Home windows taskbar.
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New! On Snapdragon-powered Copilot+ PCs, Click on to Do contains clever textual content actions. Use Home windows key + mouse click on or Home windows key + Q to pick out a textual content block after which drag to pick out the textual content that you really want. You’ll see choices to Summarize or that can assist you Rewrite your textual content, so it sounds extra causal or extra formal. These textual content actions leverage the capabilities of Phi Silica, the on-device Small Language Mannequin (SLM) that’s constructed proper into Home windows.
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New! Simply open Click on to Do once you swipe from the rightmost fringe of your show.
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New! The insurance policies for managing Click on to Do in a business setting. IT admins can be taught extra by viewing Handle Click on to Do.
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New! Discovering your paperwork, pictures, and settings throughout Home windows 11 is simpler on Copilot+ PCs with improved Home windows Search, powered by semantic indexing fashions together with conventional lexical indexing. Whether or not it’s looking out in File Explorer, in Home windows Search in your taskbar, or in Settings— simply kind what’s in your thoughts to seek out it in your Copilot+ PC. You not want to recollect file names, precise phrases in file content material, or settings names. Looking for settings like “change my theme” will work inside the Settings app for now. Due to the facility of the 40+ TOPS NPU onboard Copilot+ PCs, these search enhancements work even once you’re not related to the web. To search out extra information, see Looking indexing in Home windows. Now obtainable on AMD and Intel-powered Copilot+ PCs.
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New! Finding your pictures saved and saved within the cloud is getting less complicated on Copilot+ PCs. You should utilize your individual phrases within the search field on the upper-right nook of File Explorer like “summer time picnics.” Along with pictures saved regionally in your Copilot+ PC, pictures from the cloud will present up within the search outcomes collectively. Actual matches on your key phrases inside the textual content of your cloud recordsdata can even present within the search outcomes. You possibly can do this expertise out at the moment along with your private OneDrive when signed in along with your Microsoft account and related to the web. Now obtainable on AMD and Intel-powered Copilot+ PCs.
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[Narrator] New! Maintain monitor of what Narrator has spoken and entry it for fast reference. With speech recap, you’ll be able to rapidly entry spoken content material, comply with together with dwell transcription, and duplicate what Narrator final mentioned—all with easy keyboard shortcuts.
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[Phone Link] New! You are able to do much more along with your Home windows PC and your cellular machine with direct entry to cross-device options from the Begin menu. For instance, you can also make telephone calls, ship SMS messages, entry your pictures, or share content material between your cellular machine and PC.
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New! Internet builders can use their current content material to create interactive widgets that may be added to a number of widgets surfaces. For more information, see Internet widget suppliers.
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New! There are some new updates to the brand new Widgets on Lock expertise for gadgets within the European Financial Space (EEA). Along with accessibility and craftsmanship enhancements, the Lock display screen climate widget now helps customization. To configure your climate widget, go to Settings > Personalization > Lock display screen and choose the “Customise widget” choice from the climate widget extra choices menu. Extra widgets shall be customizable sooner or later.
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[File Explorer]
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New! Pivot-based curated views on File Explorer Residence that helps ease of entry of Microsoft 365 content material on Home windows. Be extra productive and get extremely related content material at your fingertips on File Explorer Residence.
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Mounted: As a part of our ongoing dedication to bettering File Explorer accessibility, this launch contains elevated help for the textual content scaling (Settings > Accessibility > Textual content dimension) throughout File Explorer, File Open/Save dialogs and the copy dialogs.
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Mounted: Improved the efficiency of extracting zipped recordsdata, notably within the case the place you’re unzipping a lot of small recordsdata.
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Mounted: The handle bar in File Explorer would possibly unexpectedly not present a path after opening.
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[Settings] New! Handle which apps Home windows recommends actions, go to Settings > Apps > Actions on Copilot+ PCs.
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[Windows Studio Effects] New! The Studio Results computerized framing filter activates after the preliminary use of the digicam, in case your PC helps Studio Results and you haven’t used Studio Results beforehand.
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[Start]
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Mounted: You possibly can’t use contact gestures to view the listing of apps pinned within the Begin menu.
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Mounted: The Signal out and Extra choices buttons within the Begin menu account supervisor won’t be seen with elevated textual content dimension.
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[Taskbar]
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Mounted: The underlines beneath the app icons within the taskbar could stay seen even after the apps have been closed.
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Mounted: In the event you use the arrow keys after urgent the Home windows key + T, the arrows transfer within the unsuitable course for Arabic and Hebrew show languages.
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[Desktop icons] The logic for apps pinned to the desktop has been up to date, in order that packaged apps not present an accent coloured backplate. For instance, in the event you had been to tug and drop Snipping Device from the apps listing in Begin to the desktop the icons must be greater and simpler to see now.
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[Display] Mounted: You would possibly have to press the WIN + P keyboard shortcut twice to change topologies.
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[ExtFloodFill] Mounted: There’s an unusual situation with ExtFloodFill the place a horizontal line would possibly seem within the incorrect location in Win32 functions.
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[Graphics] Mounted: Exterior graphics playing cards related over Thunderbolt would possibly unexpectedly not be discoverable in some instances.
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[Hyper-V Manager] Mounted: Hyper-V Supervisor unexpectedly exhibits 0% CPU utilization for VMs
The excellent news is that there are some fixes which might be obtainable instantly with the KB5055627 replace, which embody:
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[Blue screen error] Mounted: This replace resolves a problem noticed after putting in the April 2025 Home windows safety replace and restarting the machine. Affected gadgets encountered a blue display screen exception with error code 0x18B indicating a SECURE_KERNEL_ERROR.
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[Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP Client)] Mounted: This replace addresses a problem affecting web connectivity on gadgets after resuming from sleep mode. Customers would possibly expertise intermittent web connections.
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[File Systems] Mounted: This replace addresses a problem when the working system stops unexpectedly, and an error message seems on a blue display screen throughout regular utilization with a consumer profile redirected to a community VHD(X).
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[Imaging] Mounted: This replace addresses a problem the place some content material pages with JPEG photos weren’t displaying.
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[Windows Hello] Mounted: This replace addresses an edge case situation the place Home windows Hi there doesn’t work on gadgets with particular security measures enabled, stopping customers from logging in with facial recognition or PIN. This situation was noticed after performing a Push button reset or Reset this PC from Settings > System > Restoration and deciding on Maintain my Information and Native set up.
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[Windows Setup] Mounted: In the event you set up Home windows 11, model 24H2 with Home windows Setup and run System Preparation (Sysprep) afterwards, the boot file configuration is just not correctly up to date, leading to push-button reset choices not working.
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[Windows Update] The Home windows Replace settings web page and the Begin menu energy button will now present an estimated time for the way lengthy your PC shall be offline to put in updates from Home windows Replace.
Microsoft is conscious of two long-standing points with KB5055627, one inflicting some Citrix parts to dam the updates from putting in. A brief workaround is out there on this Citrix documentation web page.
The second impacts Roblox gamers on Home windows Arm gadgets and prevents them from downloading the sport from the Microsoft Retailer. As a workaround, they will obtain Roblox immediately from www.roblox.com.
The total launch notes for KB5055627 could be discovered on this help bulletin.
