- Windows 11 22H2 receives builds 22621.1616 and 22624.1616 (KB5025308) in the Beta Channel.
- This update rolls out with various fixes and improvements for Live Captions, input, and accessibility.
Microsoft rolls out Windows 11 build 22624.1616 (KB5025308) with new features enabled by default and the preview build 22621.1616 (KB5025308) with features turned off by default for computers enrolled in the Beta Channel.
Build 22624.1616 and 22621.1616 for Windows 11, and according to the official changes, it only brings some fixes and improvements for Live Captions, input, and accessibility.
Changes and fixes for build 22624.1616
Starting with build 22624.1616, Windows 11 expands the language of Live Captions to Danish, English (Ireland), French (Canada), Korean, and Portuguese (Portugal).
As part of the fixes, in the Windows Update settings, turning on the “Get the latest updates as soon as they’re available” toggle switch will now download and install the enablement package to switch to build 22624 from 22621.
This release also fixes an underlying issue that was causing a noticeable increase in explorer.exe crashes in the last flight for some Insiders.
For “input,” build 22624.1616 fixes an issue where the touch keyboard didn’t correctly recognize a hardware keyboard was available in some cases. In addition, this rollout updates the “TextInput/EnableTouchKeyboardAutoInvokeInDesktopMode” MDM policy to allow “2” as a valid value to enforce showing the touch keyboard on tapping an edit control even when the hardware keyboard is attached.
For “Live Captions,” the update fixes an issue that was causing live captions to crash on the first launch due to an issue impacting registry data retrieval. Addresses a problem causing live captions’ Add a language menu icon and label to overlap, and new features have been added to the enhanced speech recognition language files to improve performance and provide out-of-language filtering.
Finally, as part of the “accessibility” changes, this release fixes an issue that was leaving the voice access’s window empty after opening, an issue where voice access was crashing when using the command to go to the start of a document, an issue where if you turn off the profanity filter in voice access, it wouldn’t work, and a problem where Narrator’s “CTRL + Narrator + Home” and “Ctrl + Narrator + End” commands to move to the beginning and end of text weren’t working correctly in Microsoft Edge.
Also, Windows 11 build 22624.1616 ships with several issues regarding the Taskbar, File Explorer, and Live Captions.
Install build 22624.1616
To download and install the Windows 11 build 22624.1616, enroll your device in the Beta Channel using the “Windows Insider Program” settings from the “Update & Security” section.
Once you enroll the computer in the program, you can download build 22624.1616 from the “Windows Update” settings by clicking the “Check for Updates” button. However, you will need a device that meets the minimum system requirements to receive the update if you are new to the Windows Insider Program. If the device receives build 22621.1616, you can turn on the “Get the latest updates as soon as they’re available” toggle switch to switch to build 22624.1616.
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