Windows 11 build 22557

Windows 11 build 22557 is the twentieth 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 16 February 2022, along with Windows Server build 25057. It is the first available build from the  branch, where Ni is the chemical symbol for nickel.

Live captions

 * A new feature named "live captions" has been added for automatically captioning videos and spoken audio playing on the device.

Do not disturb and Focus

 * The "Focus assist" feature has been split into "Do not disturb" and "Focus".
 * A new feature named "Focus session" has been added to Focus page.
 * The feature has been integrated with focus sessions in the Clock app.

File Explorer

 * The "Pin to Quick Access" feature has been extended to support files, which will be shown in a new section above Recent files in Quick Access.
 * Pinned and recent files from Microsoft Office's online server will be shown in Quick Access if Windows is logged into a Microsoft account or a work/education account.
 * An OneDrive button has been added to the command bar to show OneDrive's sync status and quota usage when browsing OneDrive folders.

Task manager

 * The updated version of Task Manager, initally introduced in build 22538, has been publicly rolled out to all users.
 * The "Eco mode" feature, initally introduced in Windows 10 build 21364.1, has been rebranded to "Efficiency mode", which can be applied either on the command bar in the Processes page or right-click on the process.

Shell

 * The ability to create and curate folders in the pinned apps area of Start menu has been added.
 * The snap layout experience has been improved to let users drag a window to the top of the screen to reveal the snap layouts, drop the window on top of a zone to snap it, and use snap assist to finish building snap layout.
 * Five new touch gestures has been added.

Settings
The "Power" subpage under System page has been updated to "Power & battery" page.

Narrator
Several improvements to Narrator have been made for web browsing with Microsoft Edge.
 * Narrator can now read the current item (e.g., current page, current time etc.) when navigating the web
 * Narrator will now announce the selected sort order (e.g., ascending, descending) when sorting a table on the web.
 * Tabbing through links on a webpage and pressing Enter will always take users to the link destination.
 * Narrator can now stay focused within the dialog box and prevent navigation to the content that's behind it.
 * Narrator will now read the deleted character on a form field
 * Narrator will now confirm that the text has been cut when pressing Ctrl to cut a large set of text.