Windows 11 build 22543

Windows 11 build 22543 is the nineteenth Insider Preview build of Nickel, the 22H1 development semester of Windows as a service. It was released to Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel on 27 January 2022.

Narrator

 * The natural voices feature has been added, along with two available voices, "Jenny" and "Aria".
 * The feature is currently only available in the English (United States) language.
 * Several keyboard commands have been added and updated.

Features
The updated input switcher, initally introduced in build 22518, has been rolled out to all users.

Settings

 * The Disks & Volume and Storage Spaces subpages under System page has been updated.
 * A new "Storage pool" subpage has been added under Storage Spaces page for managing storage pools.
 * The setting for turning off the startup sound will persist across upgrades.

Shell

 * The media controls on the lock screen has been updated in order to match the design shown for the media controls in Quick Settings.
 * The option is only available to a subset of users, but can be enabled by running the following command with ViveTool from an elevated Command Prompt window:
 * The experience of resizing app windows in snap layouts has been updated by overlaying the relevant app icon on top of the acrylic background.
 * When resizing the snapped window layout, the other snapped windows will go out-of-focus overlaid with their app icon.
 * The WinUI 3 ring-shaped progress spinner, introduced in Windows 10 build 19587, has been integrated into the update screen.
 * The charging animation of battery icon on the taskbar has been updated.
 * The Sleep icon in the Start menu, as well as the Force assist icon in the Settings app and Notification Center, have been changed.
 * The legacy context menu has been updated with lower corner radius.
 * A confirmation flyout has been added when pressing ⊞ Win to mute a Microsoft Teams call.
 * A level indicator has been added to the flyout for the hardware indicators for volume.
 * The underline indicating the active desktop in Task View will follow customized accent color instead of being blue.
 * A new option "Select default microphone" has been added to voice typing's settings menu.
 * The option is disabled by default, but can be enabled by running the following command with ViveTool from an elevated Command Prompt window:

General

 * Fixed an issue that was causing the hidden Task Manager to crash when attempting to access the Performance tab.
 * Fixed an issue where certain characters (like characters with umlauts) weren't allowed when naming the computer in OOBE.
 * Addressed an issue which was leading to OneNote crashing in recent Nickel builds when trying to open pages with inserted PDFs.
 * Mitigated an issue that was leading to unresponsive UI after enabling HDR.

Shell

 * Fixed an issue which was leading to the cursor unexpectedly disappearing in certain apps.
 * Fixed a crash in Quick Settings when opening the input switcher from there.
 * Fixed issues where tabbing through Quick Settings may no longer set focus to an invisible element.
 * Fixed an issue that was sometimes causing the media controls above Quick Settings to be off-screen.
 * Mitigated a WER issue which was leading to DWM crashes in recent Nickel builds.

Settings

 * Mitigated an issue leading to Settings getting stuck in a suspended state and couldn't be launched.
 * Fixed the icon in the notification that shows if users have chosen to postpone finishing setting up the device.
 * Addressed an issue which was leading to the candidate window customization being unexpectedly missing from Text Input subpages for Chinese Simplified IME users sometimes.

Bugs and quirks

 * Information such as temperature may not show on a left-aligned taskbar.
 * The Narrator voice may not be automatically switched after downloading Microsoft Aria (Natural) from the voice selection combo box.
 * Restarting Narrator may solve this issue.
 * The IME candidate window may not show up on a UAC prompt.
 * When doing a clean installation, the OOBE may loop back to country selection page after setting username and password.
 * It can be bypassed by pressing Ctrl to reboot Windows into Sysprep audit mode.