It’s time for Canary customers to obtain and set up an enormous new replace with various new options and enhancements, similar to small taskbar icons, Fast Machine Restoration, modifications to the context menus, hyperlink previews within the share dialog, and extra. Here’s what is new.

The largest change in construct 27898 is the flexibility to set small taskbar icons. This long-requested function has lastly made its method to the Canary Channel, permitting Home windows 11 customers to have extra space for apps. You may have smaller icons all the time, when the taskbar is full, or by no means (adjustable in Settings).

The following is Fast Machine Restoration, a function that was introduced at Ignite 2025. It permits making use of essential fixes and patches inside Home windows Restoration to revive techniques that can’t boot. Fast Machine Restoration is now out there within the Canary Channel, and you may configure the function in Settings > System > Restoration.

Construct 27898 additionally packs some accessibility enhancements. Now you can educate Home windows 11’s Voice Entry hard-to-pronounce phrases to extend the likelihood of the system recognizing them. This function is at present out there in English, French, German, Spanish, and Chinese language. Those that use Narrator also can profit from the Display screen Curtain function, which blacks out the display to forestall others from taking a look at it. You may flip Display screen Curtain on with Caps + Ctrl + C when Narrator is operating. Lastly, the accessibility flyout within the tray space now has descriptions for every assistive know-how.

Different modifications in Home windows 11 construct 27898 embrace a small replace for the context menus, which now have dividers for frequent file actions, improved privateness dialogs for app permissions (they now dim the app when showing on the display), hyperlink preview within the Share expertise, some updates for the default browser settings, and a brand new adaptive energy saver. The latter mechanically permits or disables vitality saver, with out altering display brightness, based mostly on the facility state of the machine and the present system load.

Here’s what else was fastened in construct 27898:

• [File Explorer]
  • We’ve accomplished some extra work to enhance the efficiency of extracting archive information – this may significantly assist in the case of copy-pasting massive numbers of information out of huge 7z or .rar archives.
• [Input]
  • Fastened a difficulty the place typing Japanese with the contact keyboard may cease working after switching to typing with an English keyboard and again.
• [Settings]
  • Fastened a difficulty that might trigger Settings to crash when altering the mouse cursor.
  • Fastened an underlying concern that might result in the Settings window hanging and now not responding to enter or resizing except you closed and reopened it.
• [Other]
  • Fastened an underlying concern within the earlier flight, which may result in Math.Pow() not outputting the right end result, which may result in sudden habits in apps and video games.
  • Adjusted the error textual content if a Home windows Replace fails because of the system reserved partition not having sufficient free house, to make it clearer that that’s the difficulty.

Right here is the record of recognized points:

• [General]
  • [IMPORTANT NOTE FOR COPILOT+ PCs] In case you are becoming a member of the Canary Channel on a brand new Copilot+ PC from the Dev Channel, Beta Channel, Launch Preview Channel or retail, you’ll lose Home windows Howdy pin and biometrics to signal into your PC with error 0xd0000225 and error message “One thing went improper, and your PIN isn’t out there”. You need to be capable of re-create your PIN by clicking “Arrange my PIN”.
• [File Explorer]
  • [NEW] There’s a difficulty on this construct the place File Explorer might fail to persist any view modifications. This additionally impacts desktop icons, which can unexpectedly transfer or change dimension again to the default.
• [Settings]
  • We’re investigating a difficulty on this construct that might trigger Settings to crash when interacting with the choices underneath Settings > System > Energy & Battery.
• [Remote Desktop]
  • You may even see excessive graphical distortion and rendering points utilizing distant desktop on Arm64 PCs on this construct.

You could find full launch notes right here.