Windows 11 build 22504.1000

Windows 11 build 22504 is the twelfth 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 17 November 2021.

Settings

 * A new "Text Input" section has been added to Personalization page, along with 13 customized themes for the touch keyboard, which has been expanded to other input methods, including IMEs, the emoji panel, and voice typing.
 * The notification when microphone access has been restricted in user's privacy settings when opening Sound page has been removed.
 * The touch indicator option in Mouse pointer and touch section under Accessibility page will now be turned off by default.
 * As part of this change, a link to the aforementioned page has been added in Touch section under Bluetooth & Devices page in order to make the press and hold visual always displayed regardless of the setting state.

Shell

 * Apps will now launch with a maximized window by default when in the tablet posture on small devices (11-inch screens diagonal and under).
 * The context menu will be aligned with the search box when opening Start and immediate pressing ⇧ Shift or ≣ Menu key.
 * The battery icon in the taskbar will now align with the user-defined critical and low-battery level notification, rather than using the default values to show a warning.
 * Right-clicking the date and time in the taskbar will now dismiss the Notification Center if it's open in order to show the context menu options.
 * The positioning of the context menu when right-clicking the bottom corner of the desktop has been improved.

Input

 * The ability for personalized combinations of emoji based on face and skin tones of family members, couples with heart, kissing, and people holding hands has been added.
 * A new keyboard shortcut ⊞ Win has been added for toggling the new mute icon in the taskbar.
 * The emoji search has been become a little more flexible with keywords containing diacritics in Portuguese and Polish languages.

Miscellaneous

 * .NET Framework 4.8.1 has been integrated into this build, including native ARM64 architecture support for the .NET Framework runtime.
 * The support for cancellation of daylight savings time for the Republic of Fiji for 2021 has been added.

Bugfixes

 * Fixed an issue believed to be the root cause of icons sometimes not displaying correctly in the Recommended section of Start (showing the wrong or a generic icon).
 * Fixed an issue leading to an  crash in recent Nickel builds if there were issues loading the battery icon in the taskbar.
 * Several changes have been made to help the clock in the taskbar update more reliably, including addressing a recent issue where it wasn't updating at all over Remote Desktop.
 * Mitigated a positioning issue that could cause the date and time to get clipped off the end of the taskbar.
 * Fixed issues where Caps Lock, Num Lock, Scroll Lock, and other indicator lights on the keyboard would not work properly.
 * Several tweaks to the emoji search keywords have been made, including improving results for day, night, and face with raised eyebrow.
 * Fixed an issue that was causing the kaomoji list in ⊞ Win to be blank when accessed while using Chinese IMEs.
 * Fixed an issue with the emoji panel search results that could lead to a single  being displayed repeatedly with certain queries.
 * Mitigated an issue resulting in IMEs not working with certain games.
 * Addressed an issue where the options under Settings > Personalization > Typing to change the settings "Show text suggestions & add a spacebar after I choose a text suggestions" for the touch keyboard might unexpectedly not display.
 * The voice typing ⊞ Win will resume listening more reliability if a long pause has been made while using it.
 * Fixed some inconsistencies between actual listening status and the microphone visual in voice typing.
 * Fixed issues that was causing text to be unexpectedly duplicated if the caret is moved while using voice typing.
 * Fixed issues where the brightness and volume sliders in Quick Settings would randomly become invisible.
 * Fixed an issue preventing adjusting active hours from being set to manually.
 * Addressed an issue which could result in the touch keyboard occluding the password entry field when connecting to a network in Quick Settings.
 * Fixed a scaling issue that was causing the update prompt dialog (and other dialogs of that style) to get cut off and not draw correctly after the DPI changed.
 * Mitigated an issue related to TCP/IP which could result in bug checks when waking a device.
 * Fixed an issue where high priority notifications (such as an alarm) would sometimes unexpectedly dismiss without engaging with it, leading to it randomly reappearing the next time a normal priority notification came in.

Bugs and quirks

 * Some devices may fail to install this build or perform an update with error codes  or  -.
 * Hovering the mouse back and forth between different desktops in Task View may result in the displayed thumbnails and content area unexpectedly shrinking.
 * Several system icons in the taskbar may get larger than normal if DPI scaling level is set to 125%.