Following the discharge of April 2025 non-security updates for Home windows 10, Microsoft is now pushing elective updates for these on Home windows 11 model 23H2 and 22H2 (Enterprise and Schooling editions). KB5055629 (construct numbers 22621.5262 and 22631.5262) is now out there for obtain with Telephone Hyperlink integration within the Begin menu, File Explorer enhancements, adjustments to Home windows Widgets, and extra.

Here’s what Microsoft is rolling out progressively:

• [File Explorer]
  • 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.
  • Fastened: Improved the efficiency of extracting zipped recordsdata, notably within the case the place you’re unzipping numerous small recordsdata.
• [Narrator] New! Hold observe of what Narrator has spoken and entry it for fast reference. With speech recap, you possibly can shortly entry spoken content material, observe together with dwell transcription, and duplicate what Narrator final stated—all with easy keyboard shortcuts.
• [Phone Link] New! You are able to do much more together with your Home windows PC and your cell system with direct entry to cross-device options from the Begin menu. For instance, you may make telephone calls, ship SMS messages, entry your photographs, or share content material between your cell system and PC.
• [Widgets]
  • New! Net builders can use their present content material to create interactive widgets that may be added to a number of widgets surfaces. For more information, see Net widget suppliers.
  • New! Assist for lock display screen widgets (beforehand known as “Climate and extra”) arrives on units within the European Financial Space (EEA). You’ll be able to add, take away, and rearrange lock display screen widgets equivalent to Climate, Watchlist, Sports activities, Visitors, and extra. Any widget that helps the small sizing choice may be added. To customise your lock display screen widgets, navigate to Settings > Personalization > Lock display screen​​​​​​​.
• [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, should you have been to tug and drop Snipping Device from the apps record in Begin to the desktop the icons needs to be larger and simpler to see now.
• [Share Sheet] Make last-minute edits equivalent to cropping, rotating, and including filters to pictures shared although the share sheet.
• [Start]
  • Fastened: You’ll be able to’t use contact gestures to view the record of apps pinned within the Begin menu.
  • Fastened: The Signal out and Extra choices​​​​​​​ buttons within the Begin menu account supervisor may not be seen with elevated textual content measurement.
• [Taskbar] Fastened: Should you use the arrow keys after urgent the Home windows key + T, the arrows transfer within the mistaken route for Arabic and Hebrew show languages.

Prospects who nonetheless use Home windows 11 model 22H2 (Enterprise and Schooling editions) can get the next enhancements with at present’s launch:

• [Server Message Block (SMB)] Fastened: A difficulty the place an Excel file, hosted on a SMB file share with Entry Primarily based Enumeration enabled, containing hyperlinks to a number of different recordsdata hosted on community shares, may take longer to open.
• [Sign in Impact] Fastened: A difficulty affecting the USBxHCI controller and all units that connect with your pc utilizing a USB port on Intel(R) Core(TM) Extremely 200V Collection Processors. The built-in USB digital camera will not work with Home windows Hey sign-in except you manually disable Enhanced Signal-in Safety (ESS). To show off ESS, go to Settings > Accounts > Signal-in choices > Extra settings > Sign up with an exterior digital camera or fingerprint reader > toggle change ON. Should you create a Home windows Hey container whereas utilizing Home windows 11, model 23H2, it’d forestall you from utilizing ESS after you improve to Home windows 11, model 24H2
• [Xbox] ​​​​​​​
  • This replace addresses a problem affecting Xbox Elite Wi-fi Controllers with sure firmware variations, the place the keyboard may not perform and shows an error indicator within the system supervisor.
  • Fastened: The motive force verifier stops responding throughout gamepad controller driver certification, affecting Home windows {Hardware} High quality Labs testing.​​​​​​​
• [Windows Kernel Vulnerable Driver Blocklist file (DriverSiPolicy.p7b)] This replace provides to the record of drivers which can be in danger for Convey Your Personal Weak Driver (BYOVD) assaults.

As ordinary, be at liberty to skip C-updates if you don’t really feel like putting in a preview launch. Nonetheless, if you wish to get it, go to Home windows Replace within the Settings app and verify for out there updates. Alternatively, you possibly can obtain KB5055629 from the Microsoft Replace Catalog. This month’s non-security updates for Home windows 11 model 24H2 will likely be out there at a later date.