Microsoft has released new builds of Windows 11 for Windows Insiders on the beta channel. KB5025299 takes the builds to 22621.1610 (features switched off) and 22624.1610 (features switched on).

The build has a new Presence sensing privacy setting and API. You can now block or allow apps from accessing the sensor data. The API will enable apps to be able to tell if the user is present so it could adjust security and resource usage:

The other change to the OS is a new setting in Windows Update to get the latest update as soon as they are available. The toggle is for beta channel users to switch from 22621 to 22624.

Here are the other changes, fixes and known issues:

Fixes in Build 22624.1610

[General]

  • Fixed an underlying issue which was causing a noticeable increase in explorer.exe crashes in the last flight for some Insiders.

Fixes for BOTH Build 22621.1610 & Build 22624.1610

  • This update addresses a compatibility issue. The issue occurs because of unsupported use of the registry.

Known issues

[Search on the Taskbar]

  • If you have the Bing button in the search box on the taskbar and you restart your computer, you may see the daily rotating search highlight for some time before getting the Bing button back.

[File Explorer]

Insiders who have access keys in File Explorer:

  • Shift + Right click on a file or folder is not opening “Show more options”.

[Live captions]

  • On ARM64 devices, enhanced speech recognition support installed through the Language & Region settings page will require restarting live captions if you switch languages in the live captions Caption language menu.
  • [NEW] Live captions will crash on first launch due to an issue impacting registry data retrieval. A new fix is expected very soon.
  • Certain languages shown on the Language & Region settings page will indicate speech recognition support (e.g., Korean) but don’t yet have support for live captions.
  • When adding a language through the Language & Region settings page, language feature installation progress may become hidden, and you may not see install completion of “Enhanced speech recognition” (required by Live Captions). (You can use the language’s “Language options” to monitor progress.) If this happens, there may be an unexpected delay before the live caption setup experience detects this and lets you continue.
  • Captioning performance may be degraded in non-English languages and missing out-of-language filtering in non-English (United States) languages which means that incorrect captions will be shown for speech not in the caption language.

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