Microsoft has launched the KB5055627 preview cumulative replace for Home windows 11 24H2 with many new options steadily rolling out, and a few new bug fixes for everybody.
The Kb555627 replace is a part of the corporate’s optionally available non-security preview updates schedule, which pushes updates on the finish of every month to let Home windows admins check bug fixes, enhancements, and options that may roll out throughout subsequent month’s Might Patch Tuesday launch.
Not like common Patch Tuesday cumulative updates, month-to-month non-security preview updates don’t embody safety updates.
You’ll be able to 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 optionally available replace, you can be requested if you wish to set up it by clicking the ‘Obtain and set up’ hyperlink until you will have the “Get the newest updates as quickly as they’re accessible” possibility enabled, which can trigger the replace to routinely set up.
KB5055627 preview replace (BleepingCoputer)
You may also 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 optionally available cumulative launch will replace Home windows 11 24H2 programs to construct 26100.3915.
The April 2025 preview replace comes with a whole lot of new options which might be steadily rolling out, with many targeted on Microsoft Copilot+ PCs:
(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 need to get again to. Recall (preview) saves you time by providing a wholly new strategy to seek for stuff you’ve seen or executed in your PC securely. With the AI capabilities of Copilot+ PCs, it’s now attainable 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 have to opt-in to save lots of snapshots, that are photos of your exercise, and enroll in Home windows Good day to verify your presence so solely you possibly can entry your snapshots. You might be all the time answerable for 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 displays, taking video calls, and context switching throughout actions, Recall will take common snapshots and assist you to discover issues quicker and simpler. When it’s worthwhile to discover or get again to one thing you’ve executed beforehand, open Recall and authenticate with Home windows Good day. If you’ve discovered what you had been in search of, you possibly can reopen the appliance, web site, or doc, or use Click on to Do to behave on any picture or textual content within the snapshot you discovered.
The function is rolling out in early 2025 to most markets after which to the European Financial Space later this yr.
New! Click on to Do (preview) makes it simpler than ever so that you can take instant 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 also enter by means of the Snipping Software menu and print display or looking “Click on to Do” within the search field on the Home windows taskbar.
New! On Snapdragon-powered Copilot+ PCs, Click on to Do consists of clever textual content actions. Use Home windows key + mouse click on or Home windows key + Q to pick a textual content block after which drag to pick 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.
New! Simply open Click on to Do if you swipe from the rightmost fringe of your show.
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.
(Improved Home windows Search3)
New! Discovering your paperwork, images, and settings throughout Home windows 11 is less complicated on Copilot+ PCs with improved Home windows Search, powered by semantic indexing fashions together with conventional lexical indexing. Whether or not it’s looking in File Explorer, in Home windows Search in your taskbar, or in Settings— simply sort what’s in your thoughts to seek out it in your Copilot+ PC. You now not want to recollect file names, actual phrases in file content material, or settings names. Trying to find 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 if you’re not linked to the web. To search out extra data, see Looking out indexing in Home windows. Now accessible on AMD and Intel-powered Copilot+ PCs.
New! Finding your images saved and saved within the cloud is getting less complicated on Copilot+ PCs. You should use your personal phrases within the search field on the upper-right nook of File Explorer like “summer season picnics.” Along with images saved domestically in your Copilot+ PC, images from the cloud will present up within the search outcomes collectively. Precise matches on your key phrases inside the textual content of your cloud recordsdata may also present within the search outcomes. You’ll be able to do this expertise out right now together with your private OneDrive when signed in together with your Microsoft account and linked to the web. Now accessible on AMD and Intel-powered Copilot+ PCs.
(Narrator) New! Hold monitor of what Narrator has spoken and entry it for fast reference. With speech recap, you possibly can rapidly entry spoken content material, comply with together with dwell transcription, and duplicate what Narrator final stated—all with easy keyboard shortcuts.
(Telephone Hyperlink) New! You are able to do much more together with your Home windows PC and your cell 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 images, or share content material between your cell machine and PC.
(Widgets)
New! Net 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 Net widget suppliers.
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 climate widget now helps customization. To configure your climate widget, go to Settings > Personalization > Lock display and choose the “Customise widget” possibility from the climate widget extra choices menu. Extra widgets will probably be customizable sooner or later.
(File Explorer)
New! Pivot-based curated views on File Explorer Dwelling 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 Dwelling.
Mounted: As a part of our ongoing dedication to bettering File Explorer accessibility, this launch consists of elevated assist for the textual content scaling (Settings > Accessibility > Textual content measurement) throughout File Explorer, File Open/Save dialogs and the copy dialogs.
Mounted: Improved the efficiency of extracting zipped recordsdata, significantly within the case the place you’re unzipping a lot of small recordsdata.
Mounted: The tackle bar in File Explorer may unexpectedly not present a path after opening.
(Settings) New! Handle which apps Home windows recommends actions, go to Settings > Apps > Actions on Copilot+ PCs.
(Home windows Studio Results) New! The Studio Results automated 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.
(Begin)
Mounted: You’ll be able to’t use contact gestures to view the listing of apps pinned within the Begin menu.
Mounted: The Signal out and Extra choices buttons within the Begin menu account supervisor won’t be seen with elevated textual content measurement.
(Taskbar)
Mounted: The underlines beneath the app icons within the taskbar might stay seen even after the apps have been closed.
Mounted: In case you use the arrow keys after urgent the Home windows key + T, the arrows transfer within the incorrect route for Arabic and Hebrew show languages.
(Desktop icons) The logic for apps pinned to the desktop has been up to date, in order that packaged apps now not present an accent coloured backplate. For instance, in the event you had been to pull and drop Snipping Software from the apps listing in Begin to the desktop the icons must be greater and simpler to see now.
(Show) Mounted: You may must press the WIN + P keyboard shortcut twice to modify topologies.
(ExtFloodFill) Mounted: There’s an unusual concern with ExtFloodFill the place a horizontal line may seem within the incorrect location in Win32 purposes.
(Graphics) Mounted: Exterior graphics playing cards linked over Thunderbolt may unexpectedly not be discoverable in some circumstances.
(Hyper-V Supervisor) Mounted: Hyper-V Supervisor unexpectedly reveals 0% CPU utilization for VMs
The excellent news is that there are some fixes which might be accessible instantly with the KB5055627 replace, which embody:
(Blue display error) Mounted: This replace resolves a difficulty noticed after putting in the April 2025 Home windows safety replace and restarting the machine. Affected gadgets encountered a blue display exception with error code 0x18B indicating a SECURE_KERNEL_ERROR.
(Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP Consumer)) Mounted: This replace addresses a difficulty affecting web connectivity on gadgets after resuming from sleep mode. Customers may expertise intermittent web connections.
(File Techniques) Mounted: This replace addresses a difficulty when the working system stops unexpectedly, and an error message seems on a blue display throughout regular utilization with a person profile redirected to a community VHD(X).
(Imaging) Mounted: This replace addresses a difficulty the place some content material pages with JPEG photos weren’t displaying.
(Home windows Good day) Mounted: This replace addresses an edge case concern the place Home windows Good day doesn’t work on gadgets with particular safety features enabled, stopping customers from logging in with facial recognition or PIN. This concern was noticed after performing a Push button reset or Reset this PC from Settings > System > Restoration and choosing Hold my Information and Native set up.
(Home windows Setup) Mounted: In case 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.
(Home windows Replace) 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 will probably 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 on the market 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’ll obtain Roblox instantly from www.roblox.com.
The total launch notes for KB5055627 will be discovered on this assist bulletin.
